To the reader: you have come upon Ellen Moody's website as constructed by her husband, Jim Moody. Her website is a literary and academic one. It is divided into areas organized under the names of individual authors: Anthony Trollope (1815-1882); Jane Austen (1775-1817); Sophie Cottin, nee Risteau (1770-1807); Frances (Fanny) Burney d'Arblay (1752-1840); Isabelle de Crousaz, baronne de Montolieu (1751-1832); George Anne Bellamy (c. 1731-1788); Samuel Richardson (1689-1761); Anne Kingsmill Finch, Countess of Winchilsea (1661-1720); Anne Murray, Lady Halkett (1623-1699); Vittoria Colonna (1492-1547); and Veronica Gambara (1485-1550). There are also sections organized by genre, era, and sources of the materials (publications, literary and academic lists, teaching materials).

For Anthony Trollope and in conjunction with her book, Trollope on the Net (published by Hambledon Press and the Trollope Society), Ellen has placed upon this website a chronology of Trollope's writing life. She has reproduced a large selection of and commentary on the original and more recent illustrations of Trollope's novels. She is now placing on the site some of Trollope's hitherto unpublished or hard-to-find criticism and non-fiction, including his obituary for G. H. Lewes. All these materials are accompanied by extensive bibliographies.

She has placed on this site her lecture to the Trollope Society "Trollope's Storytelling Art: Partly Told In Letters" (published in Trollopiana)

On Trollope she has also placed here essays and threads from conversations on four of his Anglo-Irish and his six Barsetshire novels, including The Small House at Allington, and The Last Chronicle of Barset; on his historical novel, La Vend�ée; on two mid-career, Rachel Ray, The Belton Estate, three "heroine's texts" (Miss Mackenzie, Nina Balatka and Linda Tressel), and four later novels, Is He Popenjoy?, The American Senator, John Caldigate, and Ayala's Angel; as well as on the BBC film adaptation of The Way We Live Now, The Palliser Films, Trollope's short stories, and his travel book, North America. There are postings by members of Trollope-l on where they write from.

She also includes a conference paper, Trollope's Comfort Romances for Men: Heterosexual Male Heroism in his Work.

On Women's Poetry: For Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea, Ellen has placed here a literary biography, I On Myself Can Live, with a bibliography of all primary and secondary sources. She has also placed on her website a narrative life of Anne and Heneage Finch (4th Earl of Winchilsea), Apollo's Muse commissoned by an English Baroque ensemble, Musica Dolce. She gathered, arranged and placed here nearly 50 texts by Finch which have either never been printed, are printed in censored versions, have not been attributed to her, or occur in rare books. She provides a list and bibliography of all the sources for Finch's fables, adaptations, imitations, and translations, and she reprints the hard-to-find and scarce source texts. She describes the manuscripts and printed books in which these poems are found and has created a cross-indexed annotated chronology for all Finch's poems. All these texts and the annotated chronology, combined with the texts printed by Reynolds and a recent edition of the Wellesley manuscript, provide the student with essential texts and tools for a study of Anne Finch's poetry.

She has also placed on the site her unpublished essays Anne Finch and Mary Wortley Montagu, Sister Poets, "'I hate such parts as we have plaid today'" (delivered as a conference paper), and Anne Finch as a translator, with an updated bibliography of translation studies.

She has also placed here Secret Sacred Woods, her translation of Veronica Gambara's poems (with an illustration from an 18th century edition); biography, Under the sign of Dido; notes on misattributions, and a bibliography.

All texts are annotated and Ellen provides an essay on translation.

In this section of her website, she has placed one of the earliest sonnet sequences attributed to a woman poet, Anne Cecil de Vere (first published in 1989 in English Literary Renaissance); an essay on the poetry of Katherine Philips known as "Orinda" and reprint of Philips's translation of "La Solitude" by Antoine Girard Saint-Amant (1594-1661); and essays on women's poetry and art.

The reader will find on the website a related "Reviewer's Corner", where Ellen places essays she has published in academic journals on literature from the Renaissance through 19th century, e.g., "Taking Sides" (from Studies in the Novel), a review of Paula Backscheider's Eighteenth-Century Women Poets and Their Poetry, an essay-review, Recent Trends in Feminist Scholarship, a review of Peter Borsay's The Image of Georgian Bath (with select bibliography), and an essay-review of Gabriella Zarri's Per lettera: Le scrittura epistolare femminile tra archivio e tipografia secoli XV - XVII and a review of Abigail Brundin's Vittoria Colonna and the Spiritual Poetics of the Italian Reformation. She puts "Conference Papers" here too, e.g., Women in Cyberspace; reports on conferences; and she includes a bibliography for women's literature.

Women's Novels: for Jane Austen and in conjunction with an essay Ellen wrote (published by Philological Quarterly) "A Calendar for Sense and Sensibility", Ellen studied all Austen's novels minutely and drew extensive detailed calendars from them that are in these books and provide the undergirding of of all Austen's serious realistic fiction. The calendars are accompanied by a chronology of Austen's writing life. She has placed here her published essay-review, Jane Austen on Film: Or, How to Make a Hit, together with a bibliography of studies of film adaptations of Jane Austen's novels, a conference paper, "Jane Austen Among Frenchwomen", and from Jane Austen and Bath, "In Search of 18th Century Bath: A Visit" and "The Present Impossibility of Biography". And she includes on her website essays she sent to Austen-l and Janeites in the form of postings on Austen's Sense and Sensibility and Mansfield Park, and Northanger Abbey; and blogs in the forms of essays on Austen and Austen-related matters.

Ellen wrote her dissertation on Samuel Richardson's two epistolary novels, Clarissa and Sir Charles Grandison, and has continued her interest in the history of epistolary narratives. In 1995 she led an online mostly academic conversation which emerged from reading Richardson's Clarissa in real time; she made three blog postings on Clarissa in 2008 and early 2009; in 2009 she wrote a film study of the 1991 BBC/WBGH mini-series Clarissa: "'How you all must have laughed. Such a witty masquerade'", from her study comparing the novel and film. The part of her website devoted to Richardson and Clarissa includes a detailed comparison of the novel and film, a selected bibliography of Richardson and film studies, and link to her website on epistolarity in the novels of Jane Austen, Anthony Trollope and real women's letters from the Renaissance.

Lovelace (Sean Bean) extracts from Clarissa (Saskia Wickham) a promise she'll forgive him for attempting to rape her (Clarissa 1991)

She has spent much time working on a several projects centered on women's literature, translation and the later 18th century novel and memoir. Out of this she has created a Fanny Burney page where the reader will find three published essays, "Fanny Is Us", "On First Encountering Fanny Burney d'Arblay", and "On Reading Divergent Fanny Burney d'Arblays", reviews of books on Burney, Laclos and Riccoboni and Burney's female English romantic contemporaries -- as well as a bibliography and cyberspace postings which occurred during a group conversation on Fanny Burney's Evelina, Cecilia, Camilla, The Wanderer, and Elizabeth Inchbald's A Simple Story.

She has two sections devoted to two later 18th century French women writers. She has made an Isabelle de Montolieu page where the reader will find an etext edition of Montolieu's partly epistolary novel, Caroline de Lichtfield, selections from Montolieu's Les Chateaux Suisses, a portrait life of Montolieu, and bibliography; and she has made a Sophie Cottin page where the reader will find an etext edition of the Sophie Cottin's fully epistolary Amelie Mansfield, and bibliography.

She is now constructing a section devoted to 17th and 18th century English women autobiographers. First there are several who wrote of their experiences of the English civil war: two women's texts, The Autobiography of Anne Murray, Lady Halkett and The Letters of Lady Brilliana Harley. She is presently working on putting onto the Net the rare 6 volume autobiography of George Anne Bellamy, once a famed tragic actress.

She also has many non-academic essays on her website. These are informal and personal essays and sketches and conversational postings by her and others. They are familiarly called conversations posted to the Net. Many are on the novels of Anthony Trollope and other 18th and 19th century writers. The subjects range from biography and travel books, e.g., Boswell's Life of Johnson, together with Boswell and Johnson's paired books on their tour through the Hebrides) to discussions of the gothic; and ghost, vampire and witch stories and novels (e.g., Ann Radcliffe's The Romance of the Forest and Suzy McKee Charnas's The Vampire Tapestry); and of women's novels and l'ecriture-femme (e.g, Elizabeth Gaskell's Cranford, Cousin Phillis, and Ruth Prawer Jhabvala's East Into Upper East).

Ellen's site also includes the syllabi and various other teaching materials for those courses she is currently teaching or has taught at George Mason University. Here she includes bibliographies which her students have found useful for research, e.g., on children's literature, on the medical subculture of our society, on on archaeology, human genetic heritage and migration and language history, and on Richard Feynman).