Jane Darcy: Cowper and Jane Austen

Dr Jane Darcy is a Visiting Research Fellow in the Department of Comparative Literature at King’s College London. William Cowper was a central figure in her PhD study of melancholy in the eighteenth century, later published by Palgrave as Melancholy and Literary Biography, 1640-1816 (2013). She has subsequently worked on possible reasons for Jane Austen’s great attachment to Cowper and Dr Johnson.
Music: 'Felicity' by Scott Buckley: www.scottbuckley.com.au