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Gillian Dooley is an Honorary Senior Research Fellow in English at Flinders University. She has published and presented internationally on Jane Austen, and as a singer she has curated programmes of music from Austen's personal collection since 2007. She has appeared on Australian Broadcasting Corporation's The Book Show and The Minefield as an expert on Austen. Her most recent books are Matthew Flinders: The Man behind the Map and Listening to Iris Murdoch: Music, Sounds, and Silences (both 2022). -- .
'A beautifully detailed account of the importance of music, and especially of song, to Jane Austen.' John Mullan, author of What Matters in Jane Austen? 'Gillian Dooley brings deep knowledge and appreciation of both musical and literary composition to establish their connection in Austen's writing. She played and sang is a lucid, detailed and fascinating addition that brings new insights to this important aspect of Austen studies.' Sandie Byrne, author of Jane Austen's Possessions and Dispossessions 'An illuminating book on the power of music as a social and rhetorical force in Austen’s life and fiction. Gillian Dooley, drawing on a recently unearthed collection of 500 pieces of Austen family sheet music, has produced an original, informative must-read.' Devoney Looser, author of Sister Novelists -- .
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