Ellen Moody

Education

• Ph.D., English, 1979. The Graduate School, City University of New York. Dissertation Title: Richardson, Romance, and Reverie. Advisor: Prof. Robert Adams Day
• B.A., Summa Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa, Dept. Honors Award in English, 1969. Queens College of the City University of New York.
• Senior Year of Study Abroad, Chancellor's Scholarship, 1968-69. Leeds University, England.

Publications

Books

Published

• Trollope on the 'Net, London: The Hambledon Press and The Trollope Society, 27 January 2000.

Book Projects

• I was commissioned to write a topographical book to be called Jane Austen and Bath by Hambledon and London Ltd. I found myself unable to write more than an opening chapter on my trip to Bath and a critique of the biographical tradition.

  Hambledon and London Ltd were sold to Continuum Books, and I am now embarked on a new book project, The Jane Austen Movies. I am going to attempt a full-scale throughout systematic study of all the available Jane Austen movies, complete with an adequate taxonomy of the types of film (faithful, commentary, and free adaptation), a study of them as works of art in their own right (with attention to the body of work created by directors and writers elsewhere, and as a coherent body of film.

Poetry

• "Now hope has died," from Veronica Gambara's "Or passata e speranza," in Letters to the World: Poems from the Wom-Po Listserv, edd. Moira Richards, Rosemary Starace, Lesley Wheeler, preface by Annie Finch, introduction by D'Arcy Randall. Los Angeles: Red Hen Press, 2008.
• Amaro Lagrimar and Secret Sacred Woods, complete translations (two full books) of the poetry of Vittoria Colonna and Veronica Gambara, at Fiera Lingue, Poets Corner

Invited Lecture

• Partly Told in Letters: Trollope's Story-Telling Art,The 12th Annual Trollope Society Lecture, delivered 23 November 1999; published Trollopiana, February 2000 pp. 4-31.

Essays published

• In Progress: "The Palliser films," begun as a contribution to Adaptations: British Literature of the Nineteenth Century and Film, ed. Abigail Burnham Bloom. I am working on this at the same time as I work on The Jane Austen Movies.
• "The Three Northanger Abbey films, published on Jane Austen Today and Jane Austen's World.
• "Jane's Aunt Jane Probably Stole that Lace", The Life and Times of Jane Leigh-Perrot, at the Jane Austen Centre, the online magazine of the Jane Austen Center and Costume Museum at Bath.
• "Continent Isolated: Anglocentricity in Austen Criticism:" Re-Drawing Austen: Picturesque Travels in Austenland [English translation of Italian title], edd. Beatrice Battaglia and Diego Saglia. Napoli: Liguori Editore, 2005. Pp. 325-338. Invited Essay for Roundtable to be published as part of a series of papers from and about conferences held at the University of Bologna, most centrally the one held on October 18, 2002: Jane Austen: Oggi e ieri [Then and Now].
• "Johnson-and-Boswell Forever!" in the Johnsonian Newsletter, LV:2 (2004): 22-26.
• "Taking Sides", Studies in the Novel, 36: 2 (2004): 251-69. An Invited Essay-Review of Leah Price's The Anthology and the Rise of the Novel, Neil McCaw, George Eliot and Victorian Historiography: Imagining the National Past, and Barbara Tepa Lupack, ed. Nineteenth-Century Women at the Movies: Adapting Classic Women's Fiction to Film.
• "Recent Trends in Feminist Scholarship: A Review-Essay" of Troost, Linda, ed. Eighteenth Century Women: Studies in Their Lives, Work, and Culture, Vol 1. New York: AMS Press, 2002 for the The East-Central Intelligencer: The Newsletter of the East-Central/American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, N. S. 17/2 (2003), 24-31.
• "On Reading Divergent Fanny Burney d'Arblays", Burney Letter, 8:2 (Fall 2002), pp. 13-15
• Per Lettere: An Essay-Review on Per lettere: La scrittura epistolare femminile tra archivio e tipografia, secoli XV-XVII, ed. and introd. Gabriella Zarri, Rome: Viella. 1999. The Sixteenth Century Journal: The Journal of Early Modern Studies, 33/2 (2001), 632-636.
• "On First Encountering Fanny Burney d'Arblay," Burney Letter, Vol 6 No 2 (Fall 2000), 10
• "A Calendar For Sense and Sensibility", Philological Quarterly, 79 (Fall 2000), 233-266.
• "Fanny is Us," Burney Letter, Vol 6 No 1 (Spring 2000), pp. 1&6
• "Jane Austen on Film." An Essay-Review on Jane Austen Goes to the Movies. Linda V. Troost, Editor. Issue No. 48 of Topic: A Journal of the Liberal Arts (Washington and Jefferson College, November 1997). The East-Central Intelligencer: The Newsletter of the East-Central/American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies N.S. 12 (Sept. 1998), 12-17. This is accompanied by a bibliography of studies of film adaptations of Jane Austen's novels
• "Six Elegiac Poems, Possibly by Anne Cecil de Vere, Countess of Oxford", the original version of the essay and texts first published in English Literary Renaissance, 19 (1989), 152-70.
• "Orinda, Rosania, Lucasia et alia, Towards a New Edition of the Works of Katherine Philips". This version of an essay originally published in Philological Quarterly, 66 (1987), 325-354, has been updated to include new information and apperars with a reprint of Philips's once famous and today almost unknown translation of a pastoral "Golden Age" poem, "La Solitude" by Antoine Girard Saint-Amant (1594-1661) as "Solitude."
• with C. Perri, "Allusion Studies: An International Annotated Bibliography, 1921-77," Style, 13 (1979), 178-226

Reviews of

• Jennings, Judith. Gender, Religion, and Radicalism in the Long Eighteenth Century: The 'Ingenious Quaker and Her Connections. Hampshire: Ashgate, 2006. For Eighteenth-Century Intelligencer. In progress.
• Baker, William. A Critical Companion to Jane Austen: A Literary Reference to Her Life and Work. New York: Facts on File, Infobase Publishing, 2008, Eighteenth-Century Intelligencer, NS, 22:2 (2008):43-46.
• Seelig, Sharon Cadman. Autobiography and Gender in Early Modern Literature: Reading Women's Lives, 1600-1680, Renaissance Quarterly, 60:2 (2007):675-677.
• Backscheider, Paula R. Eighteenth-Century Women Poets and Their Poetry: Inventing Agency, Inventing Genre. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 2005. Appeared in The Eighteenth Century Intelligencer, N. S. 20:3 (September 2006):42-46.
• Couchman, Jane and Ann Crabb, ed., introd. Women's Letters Across Europe, 1400-1700. London: Ashgate, 2004. Appeared in Renaissance Quarterly, 49:3 (Fall 2006): 930-32
• McDonagh, Josephine. Child Murder & British Culture: 1720-1900. Cambridge University Press, 2003. Appeared in Keats-Shelley Journal, LIV (2005): 199-202.
• Crachun, Adriana. Fatal Women of Romanticism. Cambridge University Press, 2003. Appeared in Keats-Shelley Journal, LIV (2005): 199-202.
• Borsay, Peter. The Image of Georgian Bath, 1700-200: Towns, Heritage, and History. Oxford University Press, 2000. Appeared in Scriblerian, 37:1 (Autumn 2004): 89-90.
• Gross, Gloria Sybil. In a Fast Coach with a Pretty Woman: Jane Austen and Samuel Johnson. AMS Press, 2002. Appeared in The East-Central Intelligencer: The Newsletter of the East-Central/American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, N.S. 18:3 (Sept 2004): 30-32.
• Sol, Antoinette Marie. Textual Promiscuities: Eighteenth Century Critical Rewriting. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2002. in Burney Letter, 10:2 (Fall 2004): 13-14.
• Keane Angela. Women Writers and the English Nation in the 1790s. Cambridge University Press, 2000. A review for ECCB: The Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography. To appear in the volume for 2001, scheduled to be published in 2004.
• Anne Kelley, Catharine Trotter: An early modern writer in the vanguard of feminism in the Scriblerian, 36:1 (August 2003): 58-59.
• The Anne Finch Wellesley Manuscript Poems A Critical Edition, Barbara McGovern and Charles H. Hinnant edd. in The Scriblerian, 33/2 (2001), pp. 203- 204.
• Tom W. N. Parker, Proportional Form in the Sonnets of the Sidney Circle in The Sixteenth Century Journal: The Journal of Early Modern Studies, 31/1 (2000), 197-200.
• Moreland Perkins, Reshaping the Sexes in Sense and Sensibility in The Journal of English and Germanic Philology, 99:1 (January 2000), 141-43.
• Alistair Fox, The English Renaissance Identity and Representation in Elizabethan England in The Sixteenth Century Journal: The Journal of Early Modern Studies 29 (1998), 511-14
• Toni Bowers, The Politics of Motherhood: British Writing and Culture, 1680-1760 in The East-Central Intelligencer: The Newsletter of the East-Central/American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, N.S. 10 (Sept. 1996), 19-21.

Conference Papers

• "The Ungothic Northanger Abbey; or, It's Surprizing What Tricks Memory Plays upon us when it comes to the Gothic." For panel at upcoming EC/ASECS, Georgetown University, November 6-9, 2008. "Re-evaluating Austen." Chairpersons: Temma Berg and Elizabeth Lambert. My paper will include a discussion of the three Northanger Abbey films.
• "'A hole in the manuscript big enough to put your finger through:' the misframing of Anne Halkett's autobiography." For panel at ASECS 22-25 March 2006, Atlanta, Georgia. "Paratexts." Chair: Caroline Breashears. Panelists: Stephen Szilagyi, Pat Rogers, Evan Davis.
• "'Cast out from respectability a while:' Anne Murray Halkett's Life in the Manuscripts." (Working title). For panel at coming EC/ASECS 26-29 October 2006, at Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Bibliography, Textual Studies, and Book History. Chair: Eleanor Shevlin. Panelists: Ellen Moody, William E. Rivers and John Heins
• "Trollope's Comfort Romances for Men: Heterosexual Male Heroism in his Work." For panel at upcoming Trollope Conference July 17-19, 2006: Trollope and Gender. Exeter University, Exeter, Devon, UK. "Performing Masculinity. Gender and Narrative Construction I." Chair: Deborah Denenholz Morse. Panelists : Ellen Moody, Michelle Mouton, David Skilton. My paper centers on Miss Mackenzie, Is He Popenjoy? and Ayala's Angel.
• "Women in Cyberspace." Panel at ASECS in 30 March - 2 April 2006, Montreal, Canada. "Eighteenth Century Women Writers After the Digital Turn." Roundtable for the Woman's Caucus. Other speakers: Isobel Grundy, University of Alberta, Suzan Van Duke, Universite of d'Utrecht Institut de Recherches en Histoire et Cultures. Chair: Lori Davis-Perry, United States Air Force Academy.
• "'I hate such parts as we have plaid today': In Praise of Anne Finch and Mary Wortley Montagu's Mordant Muse (emphasis added)". Panel at the EC/ASECS October 2004 meeting at Cape May. "Lives, Lyrics and the Healing Arts." Henry Fulton, Chair. Panelists: Mary Margaret Stewart, Ellen Moody, Luanne T. Frank.
• "Continent Not Isolated: Jane Austen Among French Women". Panel at the EC/ASECS October 2003 meeting at the University of Pittsburg at Greensboro: "English Literature in France." Margaret Koehler, Chair. Panelists: Walter Gershuny, Ellen Moody, Robert Frail.
• "A Website: Freedom of the Press Belongs to the Woman Who Owns One". Two panels, the first at the EC/ASECS October 2002 meeting at Rosemont College, Pennsylvania, and the second (a revised version) at the ISECS/ASECS August 2003 meeting at UCLA: "Publishing on the Web: Differing Approaches and Experiences. Theodore E. Braun, Chair. Panelists: Kevin Berland, Jack Lynch, Ellen Moody.

Further Projects

I also study translations and translation studies as part of my projects towards futher papers.

• "Found in Translation." I hope eventually to produce two papers on the theme of the creative art of translation and cross-currents between French and English epistolary, sentimental, and gothic novels by women. I mean to take one to the coming Montreal conference of the ISECS
  
  
  • I've begun a project based on a comparative study of Ann Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho and Victorine de Chastenay's Les Myst�ères d'Udolphe (published 1797).
  • I recently finished a comparative study of the anonymous 1808 translation of Germaine de Stael's Corinne, ou l'Italie, and the two most recent translations into English of Avriel Goldberger and Sylvia Raphael. Recently I've acquired Isabel Hill's Victorian English and a 19th century Italian translation of Corinne and aim to study these next.
    
    
  There are many women translators and translations of interest in the area of the later 18th and early 19th century novel I've been looking at (e.g., Isabelle de Montolieu is just one; F�élix F�én�élon's late 19th century translation of Northanger Abbey as Catherine Morland is another goal for me). I study Austen's novels by close comparative readings of the sentimental, epistolary and gothic novel of the later 18th and early 19th century, with an emphasis on women authors and translations. The working title is still (see above) Jane Austen in a Eurocentric Context.

• An essay on Sophie Cottin's life and work, with especial attention to Amž�¡��élie Mansfield. For Eighteenth-Century Women, a series published for ASECS. In progress.

• "On Living in a New Country" I may turn this into a book, but I am going to start with an essay focused on "Anthony Trollope's Cosmopolitanism." This will be an essay on Trollope's sympathetic and analytical presentation of American and migrant English culture aspresented in his North America and Australia and New Zealand, with excursions into his other major travel writing (The West Indies and the Spanish Main and South Africa) and stories of American and other migrant communities, including the quixote satire, The American Senator and lesser known books and short stories (John Caldigate, Harry Heathcote of Gangoil, Dr Wortley's School; "The Courtship of Susan Bell," "Miss Ophelia Gledd," "Returning Home," "Aaron Trowe," "The Two Generals," "The Widow's Mite," "Journey to Panama," "Catherine Carmichael, or Three Years Running").

  Begun as a contribution to Diana Archibald's projected collection of essays, Anti-Americanism in British Literature: Romantic, Victorian, and Modernist Views of America. Now I'm aiming to write just on Trollope's North America and Australia and New Zealand and send the essay to the journal, The Antipodes.

  For a full-length book I'd set Trollope's works in context of travel-books, emigrant literature and modern studies of the 19th century diaspora of British peoples, e.g, (among others) for the US: Harriet Martineau's Society in America, Retrospective of Western Travel, Frances Anne Kemble's Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation, 1838-39, Isabella Bird's The Englishwoman in America, Henry Tuckerman's America and Her Commentators and A Month in England, Henry James's English Hours and Daisy Miller, Mary Ward's Eleanor, Eva Hoffman's Lost in Translation, the historical work of Charlotte Erickson and Bernard Bailyn and Stephen Fender's Sea Changes: British Emigration and American Literature; for Canada: Susanna Moodie's Roughing It in the Bush and Anna Jameson's Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada and George Woodcock's The Century That Made Us, 1814-1914, Margaret Atwood's Survival; for Australia and New Zealand: Henry Kingsley's Recollections of Geoffry Hamlyn, Marcus Clarke's For the Term of His Natural Life, Ethel Richardson's Australia Felix, Jane Mander's The Story of a New Zealand River, Patrick White's A Fringe of Leaves and Voss and Robert Hughes's The Fatal Shore and Russell Ward's The Australian Legend (as well as its critiques). If it becomes a book I'll have separate chapters on the US, Canada, and Australian/New Zealand emigrant literature and travel books.

The following has been a dream of mine since coming across the text in the Library of Congress in the 1980s and getting onto the Net in the 1990s and putting the materials for Anne Finch and Mary Wortley Montague on my site. I want to put etexts by 17th century women of letters who I find congenial and worthy of remembrance and reading here too.

• An etext edition of The Autobiography of Anne Murray, Lady Halkett, ed. John Gough Nicols (Westminster Camden Society), New Series, No. 13, 1875), corrected and supplemented by the more recent edition of the memoir by John Loftis, her diary, and essays. See essay and bibliography provided by Suzanne Trille (University of Edinburgh): Lady Anne Halkett (1621 (?)-1699), Diarist, Autobiographer, Political Writer, Woman of letters.
  
  
• An etext edition of The Letters of Lady Brilliana Harley, introd., notes by Thomas Taylor Lewis (Herefordshire and London: Camden Society, 1853). Vols 58-59. See Lady Brilliana Harley (1598-1645)
  
  
• An etext edition of An Apology for the life of George Anne Bellamy. (1731?-1788) Late of Covent Garden Theatre. Written by Herself. To which is annexed, her original letter to John Calcraft, Esq. advertised to be published in October 1767, but which was then violently suppressed. The second edition. In five volumes. Edited by Alexander Bicknell. London, printed for the author, and sold by J. Bell, 1785. See "Theatrical Literature" and George Anne Bellamy

I have on hand two books and another project for a review.

• Battaglia, Beatrice. La critica alla cultura occidentale nella letterature distopica inglese. Ravenna: Longo Editore, 2006. I mean to review this for my website. Sent by Longo per author's instructions for review.
• Elibron reprints of earlier editions of "primary" and "dominant" texts, focusing on Ann Radcliffe's A Journey Made in the Summer of 1794 Through Holland and the Western Frontier of Germany, with a Return down the Rhine. "To which are added Observations during a Tour to the Lakes of Lancashire, Westmoreland and Cumberland." Facsimile of 1794 edition. For The Intelligencer. Book in hand.

Web Publications

All available at http://www.jimandellen.org/ellen/emschol.htm .

Narrative

• Apollo's Muse, a program of words and music presenting the life and poetry of Anne Kingsmill Finch, Countess of Winchilsea. Commissioned by Musica Dolce, a baroque ensemble: Linda Brand, Helena Brown, Donna Dean, Joanna Levine. A shortened version was first performed at Brunel University in February 2001.

Poetry, Biography, Literary Study and Essays

• Vittoria Colonna: Amaro Lagrimar: A Translation of all her poetry. Accompanied by a complete bibliography.
• Dark Voyage: A Literary Biography of Vittoria Colonna, including portraits of Vittoria Colonna, Ferrante Francesco d'Avalos, Marchese of Pescara, Outline of Planned Biography and First Chapter, "Pawn and Wife".
• A Review of Per lettera: La scrittura epistolare femminile tra archivio e tipografia, secoli XV-XVII, ed. and introd. Gabriella Zarri.
• Veronica Gambara: a portrait life, Under the Sign of Dido; an Essay on the Process of Translation; notes On the Attribution of the Poetry of Veronica Gambara to Vittoria Colonna; and Secret Sacred Woods: A Translation of all her poetry, including her famed Stanze.
• Anne Finch: I On Myself Can Live: A Study of the Life and Poetry of Anne Kingsmill Finch, Countess of Winchilsea. Five of a planned eleven chapters.
• A Chronology of the Poems of Anne Finch, with notes, and texts of selected poems. The Chronology is complete.
• All the as yet unattributed and unpublished poems by Anne Finch
• Source Texts for Anne Finch's Translations, Adaptations, and Imitations
• Anne Finch and Mary Wortley Montagu: Sister Poets
• Anne Finch as a Translator: The Development of Her Technique in her Original Poetry through the Practice of Translation," with A Bibliography of Translation Studies
• Jane Austen:
  • Extensive and detailed calendars for all Jane Austen's novels, accompanied by essays and bibliographies, and a chronology of her writing life.
  • Jane Austen and Film: An Essay-Review
  • Sense and Sensibility: A Reading
  • Mansfield Park: A Reading
  • Northanger Abbey: A Reading
  • Jane Austen and Bath:
    • Prologue: In Search of 18th Century Bath, A Visit
    • Chapter One: The Present Impossibility of Biography
    • On Peter Borsay's The Image of Georgian Bath, with a select biblography. A review.

Etext Editions of Rare French Novels

Available at http://www.JimandEllen.org/montolieu/caroline.show.html:
• An etext of Isabelle de Montolieu's Caroline de Lichtfield, with accompanying notes on the text, source, a contemporary translation and illustration, biography and selections from Ch�âteaux Suisses, Portrait Life, and working bibliography.
Available at http://www.JimandEllen.org/cotton/amelie.show.html:
• An extext of Sophie Cottin's (n�ée Marie Risteau) Am�élie Mansfield, with an accompanying textual note and a bibliography.

Other Internet Activity: Writing Available in Archives

• Long time moderator of Trollope-l, organizer and facilitator and formerly a principal contributor to discussions of works by Trollope and other 19th century writers, e.g., Elizabeth Gaskell and Margaret Oliphant and Dickens. See Conversations on the Net and Anthony Trollope
• Listowner of Eighteenth Century Worlds (1660-1830) (Dagny Wilson is a moderator) and Women Writers Through the Ages (Penny Richards and Dagny Wilson, moderators). See also Fanny Burney D'Arblay
• Formerly an organizer and contributor to conversations on criticism of Austen, minor 18th century women novelists on Janeites and Austen-l;
• Also frequent contributor to C18-l, Victoria, Ficino, Gaslight, Litalk-l, Arthurnet (see a group of essays 'on Marie de France described in 1st issue of 1996 Arthuriana (http://dc.smu.edu/Arthuriana/), and Clary-l.

Published Appreciations

Acknowledged Assistance

• Norton, Rictor. "Introduction" to his Sodomites, Mollies, Sapphists and Tommies, a volume in Eighteenth-Century British Erotica, gen. edd. Alexander Pettit and Patrick Spedding. Pickering and Chatto, 2004.
• Birchall, Diana. Preface to In Defense of Mrs Elton, to be republished with Mrs Elton in America as Mrs Elton in America and Other Stories by Egerton House, UK, 2004.
• Faber, Michel. The Crimson Petal. Edinburgh, 2001.
• Thorn, Michael. William Cowper. London: Greenwich Exchange, 1996
• Griffiths, Kelley. Writing Essays about Literature: A Guide and Style Sheet. Fifth Edition. Harcourt Brace College. 1993.

Essays On My Work

• P�ósfay, �Éva, "Isabelle de Montolieu (1751-1832) and Her Readers," The East-Central Intelligencer, N. S. 17:3 (2003), 10-12.
• Vivian-Neale, Henry. "Postings from the Internet," Trollopiana: The Journal of the Trollope Society, 34 (August 1996), 7-8.
• Letts, John, Chairman of the Trollope Society. "Interetiquette," Trollopiana: The Journal of the Trollope Society, 33 (May 1996), 4-6.

Employment History

• Lecturer/Instructor in English. George Mason University, 4400 University Drive, Fairfax, Va. 22030. 8/88-present.
• Professorial Lecturer in Literature. American University, 4400 Massachusetts Ave., N. W., Washington, D. C.. Telephone: 1-202-885-2971. 8/86-12/91.
• Lecturer in English. University of Virginia, Northern Regional Center, 2990 Telestar Court, Falls Church, Va. 22042. Telephone: 703-876-6924. 8/86-6/88.
• Field Reader. Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education, U. S. Dept. of Education, Application Control Center, GSA Building, Rm 3633, Washington, D. C. 1985.
• Graduate Fellow. Queens College, CUNY, 65-30 Kissena Blvd., Flushing, N. Y. 11367. 9/74-6/76.
• Adjunct Lecturer. Brooklyn College, CUNY, Bedford Ave. and Ave. H., Brooklyn, New York. 11210. 9/72-6/74.
• Library Research Assistant. English Dept., Graduate School, CUNY, 33 West 42nd Street, N.Y., N.Y. 10036. 9/70-6/71.
• Administrative Assistant. John Waddington Ltd., Leeds, England. 1/70-6/70.
• Legal Secretary. Federal Aviation Agency, JFK Airport, New York. 7/63-8/65.

Honors and Awards

Professional Memberships

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