649: Introduction — Emma

Mar 29, 2024

We are finally back! 🥳

But before we dive into all things Emma, we're peeking behind the curtain today to discover all the juicy stuff to better understand Jane Austen’s world when she wrote Emma.

Buckle up, because this is going to be one heck of a ride.

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• This month’s giveaways: Susan’s bookmark and coaster set!

• My smock shirt

• K3N Clothtales: Her Weekly Stitch Journal

• Bibliography (join me!)

• Jane Austen Map and https://jhupress.wordpress.com/2012/09/12/jane-austen-on-location/

• All the names

• And the rest of the Family Infos

• A sweet map you can get on Etsy

• JASNA’s maps of the novels

• 1995 book’s map of hypothetical Highbury

• Cute, if flawed map

• Detailed Jane information

• ALL things Wentworth Woodhouse

• Nabokov’s Notes

• Free Indirect Speech – 3rd person: I got my examples here, but this amazing interactive site covers the whole text

• 1809 Chawton House

• Jane Austen died of… several journals have thoughts:

• 2005

• 2009

• 2021

• Some nifty follies: a Doric Temple and more

• then from a rival estate

• and the Wentworth Castle feud story

• Peerage links for the families:

• Darcy

• Fitzwilliam

• Wentworth

• Woodhouse 

• Watson 

• Leigh 

• Vernon 

• Brydges 

• Chandra Levy Story

 

MyBib—Works Consulted: 

• Park Honan, Jane Austen: Her Life: The Definitive Portrait of Jane Austen: Her Life, Her Art, Her Family, Her World

• Eavesdropping on Jane Austen's England - Roy and Leslie Adkins

• What Matters in Jane Austen: Twenty Crucial Puzzles Solved — John Mullen and his fun lecture with the four actors (___dude, Poldark, Opelia, Dominic West)

• Jane Austen’s letters—Dierdre Le Faye

• History, Location, and Celebrity: Matters of Fact in Jane Austen — Janine Barchas

• Plus Barchas’ two articles that I found: https://www.press.jhu.edu/newsroom/reading-jane-austen-vladimir-Nabokov and https://jhupress.wordpress.com/2012/09/12/jane-austen-on-location/

 

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