March 12th – April 30th 2024

19:30 – 21:30 GMT

13:30 – 15:30 CST

Cities have an impact on the characters who inhabit them. They create the atmosphere, the culture, the societal and personal relationships, and the prejudices that have an impact on the people’s lives. Cities create an historical context and verisimilitude. They can be welcoming, freeing or dehumanising and repressive. We will examine how women live and work in cities and how cities impact their sense of self and their relationships as well as how power is distributed in those relationships. The novels examine the way women define themselves and negotiate the cities as they seek autonomy and agency. 

The Course is an 8-week Zoom course. The cities we will cover are Rome, Paris, London, Dublin, New York, Chicago, and New Orleans. 

Each student must source their own books/material for the course and have read them.

Reading List and Schedule:

Mar 12th: Introduction and Rome – Daisy Miller, Henry James (126 Pages)

Mar 19th: Paris – Sarah’s Key, Tatiana de Rosnay (294 Pages)

Mar 26th: London – Mrs Dalloway, Virginia Woolf (224 Pages)

Apr 2nd: Dublin – The Visitor, Maeve Brennan (120 Pages)

Apr 9th: New York – House of Mirth, Edith Wharton (400 Pages)

Apr 16th: New York – House of Mirth, Edith Wharton (Continued 400 Pages) – New York – so good they named it twice and has to be covered over two weeks.

Apr 23rd: Chicago – The New Me, Halle Butler (208 Pages)

Apr 30th: New Orleans: The Awakening, Kate Chopin (130 Pages)

Duration: Course will run for approximately two hours each week.

Cost: €350 Per person: Payment must please be paid in full when booking.
There are a small number of places for this course.

If you’d like to make a reservation, please contact Carmel at carmelnicanultaigh@gmail.com by close of business, 17.00 hours (5pm) GMT, on Friday 16th Feb 2024 

The relevant bank details will then be sent to you and nearer to the start date you will receive the Zoom link to join the class. Thank you.