Contributions to the Conversation on the Net

• From Clary-L, a Scholarly List set up to discuss Samuel Richardson's Novels:
  • A Group Conversation Consisting of Essays, Threads and Various Postings on Samuel Richardson's Clarissa (1995), whose singularity was that we read the book together in "real-time", that is, we read each day's letter or letters on the calendar day it is attached to in the novel.
• From Austen-l, Janeites, and Trollope-l:
  • Essays in the Form of Postings to Listservs on Epistolarity (1995-2001) in Specific Novels, Chapters of Novels, and Short Stories
• Austen-l
  • Essays on Sense and Sensibility (1996-1999)
    
  • Essays on Mansfield Park (1997-1998)
  • Tuesdays in Austen's Novels (1998-1999)
  • Essays on Northanger Abbey (1997-1999)
    
  • An Outline and Commentary on Fanny Burney's Cecilia; or, Memoirs of an Heiress (1998)
• From C18-l, A List Intended to Provide a Forum for Scholarly Discussions of the literature and history of the 18th century as well as issues of importance to professional teachers:
  • Anne Finch: Two Essays in the Form of Postings to C18-l The Elephant as Disgruntled Literary Critic and An Elephant Fretting to No Purpose (1997)
  Trollope-l: Group Conversations Consisting of Essays Threads and Various Postings on Anthony Trollope's fiction and art
  • Rachel Ray and The Belton Estate (Fall 1998)
  • The American Senator (Spring 1999)
  • The Barsetshire Chronicles (1999-2000)
    • The Warden and Barchester Towers
    • Dr Thorne
    • Framley Parsonage
    • The Small House at Allington
    • The Last Chronicle of Barset
  • La Vendée and Sir Walter Scott (2000)
  • Is He Popenjoy? (2000)
  • Ayala's Angel (2001)
  • John Caldigate (2001)
  • The Anglo-Irish Novels (2001)
    • The Kellys and O'Kellys and Castle Richmond
    • An Eye for an Eye and The Landleaguers
  • The Way We Live Now (2002)
    • The 2001 Film Adaptation, Directed by David Yates, Screenplay by Andrew Davies
  • North America (2002)
  • Three Heroine's Texts: Miss Mackenzie, Nina Balatka and Linda Tressel (2004)
• From Eighteenth Century Worlds (on Yahoo), C18-l, Austen-l, and Janeites:
  • Group Conversations Consisting of Essays, Threads and Various Postings on Fanny Burney's novels and memoirs and Elizabeth Inchbald's A Simple Story.
  • Fanny Is Us (1999): While this piece of writing is now a formal published essay, it was originally written in the form of a posting to C18-l during a debate on the merits of Fanny Burney in which list-members offered to the list's consideration some candidates as one of the most significant eighteenth-century woman writers of the second millenium.
  • On First Encountering Fanny Burney d'Ablay (2000). While this piece of writing is also now a formal published essay, it too was originally conceived in the form of a posting to Janeites, a small list of fans and scholars of Austen on Yahoo.com; the then editor of The Burney Letter, whom I knew from C18-l, asked me to polish and edit it for publication after particating in a group read of Cecilia led by Jill Spriggs and me on Austen-l.
  • On Reading Divergent Fanny Burney d'Arblays (2002). The Burney Letter has also published an essay I wrote about a group conversation held on EighteenthCentury Worlds about Fanny Burney's journals and letters.
  • "Johnson-and-Boswell Forever!": a reading and discussion of Boswell's Life of Johnson, followed by a read of on to Johnson's Journey to the Western Islands and Boswell's A Tour of the Hebrides. Published in Johnsonian Newsletter, IV:2 (September 2004): 22-26.
• Trollope-l: Group Conversations Consisting of Essays Threads and Various Postings on Victorian fiction and art
  • Novels by Walter Scott
  • George Eliot's Felix Holt
    
  • George Eliot's Middlemarch
    
  • Henry James's The Princess Casamassima
    
• The Gothic: Ghost, vampire, and witch stories, female gothic, women's novels and travel writing, l'écriture-femme
  • Individual Authors: l'écriture-femme
    • Germaine de Staël's Corinne, ou, l'Italie
    • George Sand
    • Elizabeth Gaskell
    • A. S. Byatt
  • Ghost and Vampire Stories
    • Elizabeth Gaskell
    • Mary Elizabeth Braddon
    • Amelia Edwards
    • Sheridan LeFanu
    • Margaret Oliphant
    • Robert Louis Stevenson
    • Edith Wharton
    • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
    • Mary Austin
    • M. R. James
    • Josephine Daskam Bacon
    • Ellen Glasgow
    • Mary Sinclair
    • Helen R. Hull
  • Female Gothic
    • Ann Radcliffe
    • Daphne DuMaurier
    • Suzy McKee Charnas
    • Valerie Martin
  • Autobiography: Memoir and Travel Writing
    • Ann Radcliffe
    • George Sand
    • Eleanor Clarke
  • Literary Criticism: Commentaries
    • Betty Rizzo (Companions Without Vows)

From Michael Powe's Website, trollope.org, selections of postings, threads, and essays from group conversations on:

• The Barsetshire Chronicles: Barchester Towers, Dr Thorne, The Vicar of Bullhampton, The Way We Live Now, and the completed unedited discussions of The Claverings, He Knew He Was Right, and An Autobiography (upon which Chapters 2, 5 and 8 were partrly based);
• Trollope's short stories;
• Trollope's Family and Reputation, Biographies, and his Freemasonry

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