Phineas Finn ~ Chapters 14-26

Dr Ellen Moody introduces chapters 14-26 of Phineas Finn.

Dr Moody holds a Ph.D in British Literature and taught in American senior colleges for more than 40 years. Since 2013 she has been teaching older retired people at two Oscher Institutes of Lifelong Learning, one attached to American University (Washington, DC) and other to George Mason University (in Fairfax, Va). She is also a literary scholar with specialties in 18th century literature, translation, early modern and women’s studies, film, nineteenth and 20th century literature and of course Trollope. For Trollope she wrote a book on her experiences of reading Trollope on the Internet with others, some more academic style essays, two on film adaptations, the most recent on Trollope’s depiction of settler colonialism: “On Inventing a New Country.”

Phineas Finn resources

Published by London, Virtue and Co., 1869. 2 vols. Originally published in Saint Paul’s Magazine, October 1867 – May 1869.

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