I'm not going to say I hated this one, but it has to be my least favorite Jane Austen book so far (I've read Pride and Prejudice, Persuasion, Mansfield Park & Northanger Abbey). This was really the first one I've read by her, but I read it in high school and completely hated it! I am glad that I gav...
'I never have been in love; it is not my way, or my nature; and I do not think I ever shall.' Emma is absolutely wonderful.Emma , handsome, clever, and rich, confident woman with a comfortable home and happy disposition sees no need for either love or marriage.but nothing amuses her as interfering ...
Emma by Jane Austen 'I never have been in love; it is not my way, or my nature; and I do not think I ever shall.' Emma is absolutely wonderful. Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, confident woman with a comfortable home and happy disposition sees no need for either love or marriage....
So when I was in school taking a mock-exam for Eng.Lit. I came across some questions about a passage from a Jane Austen novel. This was "unseen" i.e. had not been taught in class and I certainly hadn't read any Austen outside class. There was the option of writing an essay about something else - I h...
the ravings of a sex-deprived old maid (Austen was 40 years old at time of writing and highly possibly a virgin), Emma is a classic "fantasy" work, of What My Life Would Have Looked Like Were I Ten Times Richer. the authorial avatar, "Emma" is thinly disguised anagram of the author's first name (one...
To my mind, the most troublesome of Austen's work. I just feel Emma should have been out conquering the world, not stuck in a tiny English village for the rest of her life. Even with a man who loves her. Obviously I'm not suggesting that as some kind of AU Emma fanfic proposition. I think the re...
We've just gone through an orgy of Jane Austen videos at our house, including two versions of Pride and Prejudice, two of Persuasion, and two of Emma. My spouse went back and re-read most of them, and decided I should also re-read at least one. I'd done Pride and Prejudice fairly recently, so Emma w...
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