1. Jane Austen played and sang Jane Austen played the piano from the age of about ten. Her family inherited some of her books of sheet music, including hundreds of manuscripts in her hand as well as printed music. Along with piano music, there are many songs in the collection, and judging by the music […]
Author Archives: Gillian Dooley
Gillian Dooley is an Honorary Senior Research Fellow in the Department of English at Flinders University. She graduated from Flinders University with a PhD in English in 2001. She was founding general editor of the Flinders Humanities Research Centre's electronic journal Transnational Literature and founding co-editor of Writers in Conversation.She has published four monographs and several scholarly editions, including Matthew Flinders' Private Journal 1803-1814. Along with Matthew Flinders, her research interests include the writers J.M. Coetzee, Iris Murdoch, V.S. Naipaul and Jane Austen. She has a particular interest in music and literature, and as a singer often organises and performs in programs of music with literary themes. She is a regular book reviewer for various journals and magazines, including Australian Book Review.
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