The real evils, indeed, of Emma's situation were the power of having rather too much her own way, and a disposition to think a little too well of herself - Emma, Jane Austen
Jane Austen was born in Steventon rectory on 16th December 1775. Her family later moved to Bath and then to Chawton in Hampshire. She wrote from a young age and Pride and Prejudice was begun when she was twenty-two years old. It was originally called First Impressions. It was initially rejected by the published she submitted it too and eventually published in 1813 after much revision. All four of her novels published in her lifetime were published anonymously. Jane Austen died on 18th July 1817. Northanger Abbey and Persuasion were published posthumously.
Austen's characters are unquestionably one key to her greatness.
Her understanding of the human heart is forensic and also frosted
with the necessary detachment that gives deeper meaning to her
rendering of human frailty.. In Emma, Jane Austen shows us the
halting development of an adolescent girl from perky narcissism to
something approaching empathy
*Guardian*
It is the cleverest of books. I especially love the dialogue -
every speech reveals the characters' obsessions and preoccupations,
yet it remains perfectly natural...absolutely gripping
*Susannah Clarke*
Jane Austen is my favourite author! Shut up in measureless content,
I greet her by the name of most kind hostess, while criticism
slumbers
*E.M. Forster*
The wit of Jane Austen has for partner the perfection of her
taste
*Virginia Woolf*
Like Irvine Welsh, I am a great admirer of Jane Austen
*Alexander McCall Smith*
Austen's characters are unquestionably one key to her greatness.
Her understanding of the human heart is forensic and also frosted
with the necessary detachment that gives deeper meaning to her
rendering of human frailty.. In Emma, Jane Austen shows us
the halting development of an adolescent girl from perky narcissism
to something approaching empathy * Guardian *
It is the cleverest of books. I especially love the dialogue -
every speech reveals the characters' obsessions and preoccupations,
yet it remains perfectly natural...absolutely gripping -- Susannah
Clarke
Jane Austen is my favourite author! Shut up in measureless content,
I greet her by the name of most kind hostess, while criticism
slumbers -- E.M. Forster
The wit of Jane Austen has for partner the perfection of her taste
-- Virginia Woolf
Like Irvine Welsh, I am a great admirer of Jane Austen -- Alexander
McCall Smith
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