Jane Austen's Emma by Mr. Jolyon Connell, John Sutherland (Paperback, 2012)

Name: Jane Austen's Emma by Mr. Jolyon Connell, John Sutherland (Paperback, 2012)
Brand: CONNELL PUBLISHING LTD

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\u201CA heroine whom no-one but myself will much like,\u201D the author famously proclaimed. In fact, in any league of likeability Miss Woodhouse is streets ahead of Miss Fanny \u2013 the ostentatiously \u201Cmeek\u201D heroine of Mansfield Park. Meek Emma is not. Indeed it is her sense of absolute sovereignty over her little world of Highbury \u2013 her right, as she presumes, to dispose of the marriage choices of those in her circle \u2013 which brings her to grief. And that grief, by the familiar course of the heroine\u2019s moral education in Austen\u2019s fiction, makes her, through remorse and repentance, a mature woman capable of forming correct judgements. Not least about whom Miss Woodhouse herself will marry. \n Emma, of all the six great novels, is the one which conforms most closely to Austen\u2019s famous formula that \u201Cthree\n\nThe Connell Guide To Jane Austen's Emma\n\nFree UK delivery on this item.\n\nThis brand new item is available with free UK delivery using Ro;