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The Annotated Emma, by Jane Austen, Annotated and Edited by David M. Shapard – A Review

Posted in Book Reviews, Jane Austen's Novels & Letters Book Reviews, tagged , , , , , , , on 24 March 2012 | 15 Comments »

Of all of Jane Austen’s six major works, I have always been daunted by Emma: both the novel and its eponymous heroine. It is Austen’s longest work and contains her most “troublesome creature” Miss Emma Woodhouse. I am not alone in my challenge to understand and appreciate this clever tale. The first time I read [...]

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George Knightley, Esquire: Charity Envieth Not, by Barbara Cornthwaite – A Review

Posted in Book Reviews, Jane Austen Sequels Book Reviews, tagged , , , , , , , , , on 7 August 2011 | 17 Comments »

Guest review by Shelley DeWees – The Uprising The fact that he was in love with Emma had been confronting him for some time, but he had pushed it away and given other names to the emotions that ought to have enlightened him. He had blundered on, deaf to the pleadings of his heart until [...]

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Austen at Large: Mr. Elton on Facebook

Posted in Jane Austen Humor, Jane Austen's Emma, Jane Austen's Works, tagged , , , , , on 11 April 2009 | 11 Comments »

My class assignment taken to the fullest extent!    And of course he must have his say. Virginia Claire Virginia Claire, our Austen at Large roving reporter is a college student studying English literature and history who just returned from her time studying abroad in Bath England and working as an intern at the Jane [...]

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Emma Woodhouse: Poverty, Marriage & Pedestals!

Posted in Jane Austen's Emma, Jane Austen's Works, tagged , , , , , on 24 January 2009 | 8 Comments »

“Dear me! it is so odd to hear a woman talk so!”   “I have none of the usual inducements of women to marry. Were I to fall in love, indeed, it would be a different thing! but I never have been in love; it is not my way, or my nature; and I do not [...]

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Oxford World’s Classics: Emma – Our Diptych Review

Posted in Book Reviews, Jane Austen's Novels & Letters Book Reviews, tagged , , , , , , , on 23 September 2008 | 1 Comment »

“I will keep my ill-humour to myself. I have a very sincere interest in Emma . . . There is an anxiety, a curiosity in what one feels for Emma. I wonder what will become of her!” Mr. Knightley, Emma, Chapter 5  Gentle readers, Please join us for the fourth in a series of six [...]

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A Memoir of Jane Austen: The Beginnings of a Pop Icon

Posted in Jane Austen's Life & Times, tagged , , , , , on 12 May 2008 |

“The Memoir of my Aunt, Jane Austen, has been received with more favour than I had ventured to expect. The notices taken of it in the periodical press, as well as letters addressed to me by many with whom I am not personally acquainted, show that an unabated interest is still taken in every particular [...]

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