About: Ellen Moody
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- Ellen 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." Here is her website: http://www.jimandellen.org/ellen/ No part of this blog may be reproduced without express permission from the author/blog owner. Linking, on the other hand, is highly encouraged!
Posts by Ellen Moody:
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July 5, 2022 July 4th & On People not Wanting to (bother to?) come in person …
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June 17, 2022 Why is it so much harder to be alone in summertime?
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June 8, 2022 As summer begins …
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May 17, 2022 Izzy’s latest song: Robbie Williams’s Eternity; Barsetshire in Pictures; what research could be like before the Internet …
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May 2, 2022 May: I seem to be busy once again
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April 6, 2022 April — and the unspoken topic
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March 6, 2022 because it’s spring
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February 6, 2022 Facing February …
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January 11, 2022 The new year, a new song: Izzy singing Scott Clifton’s Love Song. The past one in meaningful reading & watching, resolutions. Boxing Day & New Year’s Eve at Kennedy Center.
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January 8, 2022 The death of the US Post Office
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Recent Posts
- July 4th & On People not Wanting to (bother to?) come in person …
- Why is it so much harder to be alone in summertime?
- As summer begins …
- Izzy’s latest song: Robbie Williams’s Eternity; Barsetshire in Pictures; what research could be like before the Internet …
- May: I seem to be busy once again
- April — and the unspoken topic
- because it’s spring
- Facing February …
- The new year, a new song: Izzy singing Scott Clifton’s Love Song. The past one in meaningful reading & watching, resolutions. Boxing Day & New Year’s Eve at Kennedy Center.
- The death of the US Post Office
- How Omicron Covid Shaping our Christmas & Boxing Days
- Winter Solstice: I just cried, and cried, and cried, my face suffused with tears
- Oft in danger, yet alive/We are come to seventy five; Sondheim, the man, is gone; Barchester the cathedral, & Belfast, the movie
- Transitions
- Post-Halloween: Izzy’s new song, plus ça change …
- Remembering yet again — Autumn — a few plans — Worrying political developments — Dreams as reality & JASNA
- Nearly 8 years a widow
- Fall & 9/11 twenty years since
- Anticipations of Autumn & Continuities
- Mid-summer, Journey’s End
- For July 4th: on the Delta strain of Covid & US health care non-system
- I sit mesmerized and collapse twice; A. N. Wilson’s Stray, Us with Tom Hollander, Saskia Reeves; Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan Quartet & Colonialist Writing
- Izzy’s new song: As the world falls down
- How to tell if it’s summer? my life taking a slightly new turn ….
- Stepping out and staying in: are we post this pandemic? Online theater continues …
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