Next up on my reading list is Emma by Jane Austen. If I ever time-travel to the early 19th century and find myself among the landed gentry of rural England, I will need to know how to behave. I am leaning on Jane Austen to show me the way.
Emma is a novel written by Jane Austen. It is set in the fictional country village of Highbury and the surrounding estates of Hartfield, Randalls and Donwell Abbey, and involves the relationships among people from a small number of families. The novel was first published in December 1815, with its title page listing a publication date of 1816. As in her other novels, Austen explores the concerns and difficulties of genteel women living in Georgian–Regency England. Emma is a comedy of manners.
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Emma can be enjoyed as a charming love story, a detective story, and a comic and lively picture of English life 200 years ago.
Austen’s beautiful, clever, wilful but fallible heroine Emma Woodhouse believes she knows best. Perfectly content with her life she sees no need for either love or marriage, yet nothing pleases her more than meddling in the romantic lives of others. But when she fails to heed the warnings of her good friend Mr. Knightley and schemes to arrange a suitable match for her protégée, Harriet Smith, her carefully laid plans soon unravel and have consequences that she never expected. She discovers that she understands the feelings of others as little as she does her own heart.
With a cast of unforgettable characters, it is a lively comedy of manners that explores the concerns of genteel women living in Regency times.
Jane Austen was an English writer known primarily for her six major novels which focused on the British landed gentry at the end of the 18th century. Her plots often explore women’s dependence on marriage in the pursuit of favourable social standing and economic security.
Narrator Biography
Jenny Agutter began her acting career as a child in 1964’s East of Sudan and is well known for appearing in three adaptations of The Railway Children. She starred in the critically acclaimed 1971 film Walkabout as well as receiving a string of Hollywood roles. She won an Emmy for her role in The Snow Goose (1971), as well as a BAFTA for her role in Equus (1997).
More recently she has appeared in several television dramas, including Spooks (2002-2003), and Call the Midwife since 2012. She has performed in numerous theatre productions, including roles with the National Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company. She has also narrated audiobooks like Dodie Smith’s I Capture the Castle, and featured in the Doctor Who audio dramas inThe Bride of Peladon, and The Minister of Chance. In 2012 she was appointed OBE for her charity work.
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I’m rereading Emma at the moment, it’s such a great book. Although I may be bias since I love all things Jane Austen lol.
I consider myself fairly well-read but that has never included Jane Austen. I’m enjoying it so far.
Have you read Pride And Prejudice by Jane Austen? It’s my favourite book of all time.
I have somehow never read any of Jane Austen’s books – including Pride and Prejudice. I saw a film adaptation of P&P at one point, though. I do plan to remedy that.
P&P is definitely a must read. I saw the movie adaptation of it and hated it lol. It’s nothing like the book. However, BBC’s 1995 adaptation of it is amazing.
I will read P&P at some point, for sure. I did not enjoy the movie, but I have heard from other people also that the BBC adaptation was excellent.
It is, I’ve never met a P&P who doesn’t like the BBC adaptation. They did a great job with it.