Under the Sign of Sylvia II

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:

• September 14, 2020 An autumn of zooms: the pandemic continues

• September 7, 2020 Michael Moore & Jeff Gibbs: Planet of the Humans

• August 20, 2020 Heather Cox Richardson: How the South Won the Civil War; Joanne Friedman: Field of Blood

• August 9, 2020 A couple of rough weeks

• July 22, 2020 My & US education; a new song by Izzy (“falling through the clouds”); online treats: Jonas Kaufmann in concert, and Hannah Gadsby as immensely cheering

• July 4, 2020 An unhappy 4th: Amid inertia in a calamity we each carry on, my on-line talk & A French Village (3 & 4)

• June 16, 2020 The Ides of June

• May 30, 2020 I wear my mask with a headscarf & am part of the seemingly sane in zooms seeking an illusive safety

• May 14, 2020 Accustoming ourselves: chez nous, a new old song by Izzy, remembering our dog, Llyr

• April 25, 2020 Life for those “sheltering in place:” would it were quiet monotony

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