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Jane Austen 6-Book Boxed Set: Containing: Emma, Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Mansfield Park, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion - all illustrated (Collector's Library)

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Mrs Weston was Emma's governess for sixteen years as Miss Anne Taylor and remains her closest friend and confidante after she marries Mr Weston. She is a sensible woman who loves Emma. Mrs Weston acts as a surrogate mother to her former charge and, occasionally, as a voice of moderation and reason. The Weston and the Woodhouse families see each other almost daily. Near the end of the story, the Westons' baby Anna is born.

Mr Perry is the apothecary in Highbury who is never shown directly speaking but spends a significant amount of time responding to the health issues of Mr Woodhouse. He and Mrs Perry have several children. He is also the subject of a discussion between Miss Bates and Jane Fairfax that is relayed in a letter to Mr Frank Churchill that he inadvertently discloses to Emma. He is described as an "...intelligent, gentlemanlike man, whose frequent visits were one of the comforts of Mr Woodhouse's life. [6]" Doody, Margaret (14 April 2015). Jane Austen's Names: Riddles, Persons, Places. University of Chicago Press. p.72. ISBN 9780226196022 . Retrieved 27 January 2018. a b c d Stafford, Fiona (2004). "Notes on the Text". Pride and Prejudice. Oxford World's Classics (ed. James Kinley). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-280238-5.When Elizabeth rejects Darcy's first proposal, the argument of marrying for love is introduced. Elizabeth only accepts Darcy's proposal when she is certain she loves him and her feelings are reciprocated. [17] Austen's complex sketching of different marriages ultimately allows readers to question what forms of alliance are desirable especially when it comes to privileging economic, sexual, companionate attraction. [18] Wealth [ edit ] Gilson, David (1982). A Bibliography of Jane Austen. Oxford: Clarendon Press. pp. 161. ISBN 978-0-19-818173-6. a b c Le Faye, Deidre (2002). Jane Austen: The World of Her Novels. New York: Harry N. Abrams. ISBN 978-0-8109-3285-2. Aiken, Joan (1997). Jane Fairfax: The Secret Story of the Second Heroine in Jane Austen's Emma. St. Martin's Press. ISBN 9780312157074.

Before she began the novel, Austen wrote, "I am going to take a heroine whom no one but myself will much like." [3] In the first sentence, she introduces the title character as "Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and a happy disposition... had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her." [4] Emma is spoiled, headstrong, and self-satisfied; she greatly overestimates her own matchmaking abilities; she is blind to the dangers of meddling in other people's lives; and her imagination and perceptions often lead her astray. Southam, B.C. (1979). Jane Austen: The Critical Heritage, Vol I 1811–1870. London: Routledge. pp.117–118, 130. ISBN 978-0-203-19671-7. Stern, Lesley (1997). "Emma in Los Angeles: Clueless as a remake of the book and the city". Australian Humanities Review. Archived from the original on 6 October 2013 . Retrieved 12 November 2013.Abigail Reynolds is the author of seven Regency-set variations on Pride and Prejudice. Her Pemberley Variations series includes Mr Darcy's Obsession, To Conquer Mr Darcy, What Would Mr Darcy Do and Mr Fitzwilliam Darcy: The Last Man in the World. Her modern adaptation, The Man Who Loved Pride and Prejudice, is set on Cape Cod. [71] Jane Austen, Emma (ed James Kingsley); introduction and notes by Adela Pinch; appendices by Vivien Jones; series: Oxford World Classics (OUP 1998, 2003, reiss 2008); ISBN 978-0-19-953552-1 Emma, written after Austen's move to Chawton, was her last novel to be published during her lifetime, [5] while Persuasion, the last complete novel Austen wrote, was published posthumously. a b c d Overmann, Karenleigh A (2009). "Darcy and Emma: Jane Austen's ironic meditation on gender". Persuasions: The Jane Austen Journal. 31: 222–235 . Retrieved 26 July 2020.

I have been reading Emma, which is excellent; there is no story whatever, and the heroine is not better than other people; but the characters are all true to life and the style so piquant, that it does not require the adventitious aids of mystery and adventure." Pamela Aidan is the author of a trilogy of books telling the story of Pride and Prejudice from Mr Darcy's point of view: Fitzwilliam Darcy, Gentleman. The books are An Assembly Such as This, [76] Duty and Desire [77] and These Three Remain. [78]Emma and the Werewolves: Jane Austen and Adam Rann, Adam Rann, [96] is a parody of Emma which by its title, its presentation and its history, seeks to give the illusion that the novel had been written jointly by Adam Rann and Jane Austen, that is, a mash-up novel. [ citation needed]

Alexander McCall Smith wrote a detective version, titled Emma: A Modern Retelling (2014), [93] as part of HarperCollins' six volume Austen Project. [94]Marvel has also published their take on this classic by releasing a short comic series of five issues that stays true to the original storyline. The first issue was published on 1 April 2009 and was written by Nancy Hajeski. [75] It was published as a graphic novel in 2010 with artwork by Hugo Petrus. The whole of this unfortunate business," said Dr Lyster, "has been the result of PRIDE and PREJUDICE. […] if to PRIDE and PREJUDICE you owe your miseries, so wonderfully is good and evil balanced, that to PRIDE and PREJUDICE you will also owe their termination." [11] [12] (capitalisation as in the original) Bell, Terena (20 January 2021). "On the Never-Ending Barrage of Austen Adaptations". Medium . Retrieved 22 January 2021.

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