Expectations of Happiness: A Companion Volume to Jane Austens Sense and Sensibility
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Harriet is crushed, and Emma realizes how misguided she has been. However, Emma soon resumes her matchmaking when she presumes that Harriet has now fallen in love with Frank Churchill, Mr. Indeed, Harriet speaks of her gratitude towards a gentleman who recently came to her aid. Emma is shocked to later discover that the gentleman in question is actually Mr. Emma, crestfallen, realizes that she has been in love with Mr.
Knightley for some time. Believing Emma to be in love with Frank Churchill, Mr. Knightley comes to Hartfield to comfort her. Emma, however, believes that Mr. Knightley has come to reveal his intentions of marrying Harriet.
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In a classic Austen twist, Mr. Knightley tells Emma that he is in fact in love with her. The joyful ending sees Mr. It is, first and foremost, the love story of Elizabeth Bennet, one of five daughters of a small Hertfordshire landowner and his middle-class wife, and Mr Darcy, a matrimonial catch with a grand estate in Derbyshire and a staggering annual income of ten thousand pounds. From here develops a battle of wits between Lizzy and Darcy, who is gradually forced to acknowledge that this provincial girl is his equal despite the differences in their wealth and social position.
But, whilst it mercilessly takes down the far-fetched plots and hysterical style of Georgian Gothic fiction and plays with the popular contemporary fears of its harmful influence on impressionable young ladies, it also offers a passionate and well-argued defence of the novel as suitable reading matter for men and women of all ages.
Northanger Abbey is the story of how Catherine Morland, the young and impressionable daughter of a thoroughly mundane rural clergyman, becomes a heroine.
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In typical Georgian fashion, she is invited for a visit to Bath with her kindly neighbours. Here, she makes some unsuitable acquaintances in the form of the vulgar Thorpes. Fortunately, Henry Tilney is always at hand with sobering or amusing remarks as required. A product of its time in slightly more complicated ways than the airy Pride and Prejudice, Northanger Abbey is at once a clever pastiche and an engaging coming-of-age story, and a very entertaining and rewarding read.
The protagonist, Anne Elliot, has a high social standing in her local community as one of the three daughters of a baronet, but, still unmarried at 27, she is past her prime and her family are accustomed to making her interests second to their own as they call upon her to nurse, support and advise them. In her early youth, Anne fell in love with a promising young naval officer, but broke off her engagement at the recommendation of an old family friend, Lady Russell. Now the family has fallen on hard times financially and are forced to let their country seat while they remove to Bath for the winter.
The new tenants of Kellynch Hall are the sister and brother-in-law of Captain Wentworth, the man Anne refused to marry all those years ago. He has made his fortune at sea and returned an eligible bachelor, whilst Anne is dismissed as an old maid down on her luck. Carefully crafted by Jane Austen at the height of her writing talent and experience, this story is among the most touching and ultimately satisfying of her novels.
Appearing in , between the sparking wit of Pride and Prejudice and the flawless craftsmanship of Emma, the subject matter of Mansfield Park is unexpected, but anyone interested in the social laws of the Georgian period and in those characters who tend to be marginalised, both during the period itself and in modern-day historical romantic fiction, will be fascinated by the story of Fanny Price and her home at Mansfield Park.
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Fanny is a poor relation. The only cousin to take a real interest in her is Edmund, the younger son who aspires to become a clergyman. Then the neighbourhood is shook up by a pair of fashionable strangers.
Of John I know very little, though we have lived together for years; but of Willoughby my judgment has long been formed. Dashwood which must generally have led to imprudence. He looked rather distressed as he added, that he had been staying with some friends near Plymouth. Women in polite circles could not earn a living without giving up their respectability; marriage was the only economic alternative—the only career—open to them. You can't stop that. Thompson and Doran quickly realised that "if we didn't meet Edward and do the work and take that twenty minutes to set up those people It must be Willoughby therefore whom you suspect.
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Social History. She concluded with a very kind invitation to Mr. John Dashwood to visit her at Barton; and to Edward she gave one with still greater affection. Though her late conversation with her daughter-in-law had made her resolve on remaining at Norland no longer than was unavoidable, it had not produced the smallest effect on her in that point to which it principally tended.
To separate Edward and Elinor was as far from being her object as ever; and she wished to show Mrs.
John Dashwood, by this pointed invitation to her brother, how totally she disregarded her disapprobation of the match. John Dashwood told his mother again and again how exceedingly sorry he was that she had taken a house at such a distance from Norland as to prevent his being of any service to her in removing her furniture. He really felt conscientiously vexed on the occasion; for the very exertion to which he had limited the performance of his promise to his father was by this arrangement rendered impracticable.
John Dashwood saw the packages depart with a sigh: she could not help feeling it hard that as Mrs. Dashwood took the house for a twelvemonth; it was ready furnished, and she might have immediate possession. No difficulty arose on either side in the agreement; and she waited only for the disposal of her effects at Norland, and to determine her future household, before she set off for the west; and this, as she was exceedingly rapid in the performance of everything that interested her, was soon done.
For the comfort of her children, had she consulted only her own wishes, she would have kept it; but the discretion of Elinor prevailed.
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HER wisdom too limited the number of their servants to three; two maids and a man, with whom they were speedily provided from amongst those who had formed their establishment at Norland. Her eagerness to be gone from Norland was preserved from diminution by the evident satisfaction of her daughter-in-law in the prospect of her removal; a satisfaction which was but feebly attempted to be concealed under a cold invitation to her to defer her departure.
Since he had neglected to do it on first coming to the estate, their quitting his house might be looked on as the most suitable period for its accomplishment. Dashwood began shortly to give over every hope of the kind, and to be convinced, from the general drift of his discourse, that his assistance extended no farther than their maintenance for six months at Norland. He so frequently talked of the increasing expenses of housekeeping, and of the perpetual demands upon his purse, which a man of any consequence in the world was beyond calculation exposed to, that he seemed rather to stand in need of more money himself than to have any design of giving money away.
Dashwood and her daughters to begin their journey. Many were the tears shed by them in their last adieus to a place so much beloved. The first part of their journey was performed in too melancholy a disposition to be otherwise than tedious and unpleasant.
But as they drew towards the end of it, their interest in the appearance of a country which they were to inhabit overcame their dejection, and a view of Barton Valley as they entered it gave them cheerfulness. It was a pleasant fertile spot, well wooded, and rich in pasture. After winding along it for more than a mile, they reached their own house.
A small green court was the whole of its demesne in front; and a neat wicket gate admitted them into it. As a house, Barton Cottage, though small, was comfortable and compact; but as a cottage it was defective, for the building was regular, the roof was tiled, the window shutters were not painted green, nor were the walls covered with honeysuckles. A narrow passage led directly through the house into the garden behind. On each side of the entrance was a sitting room, about sixteen feet square; and beyond them were the offices and the stairs.
Four bed-rooms and two garrets formed the rest of the house.
It had not been built many years and was in good repair. In comparison of Norland, it was poor and small indeed!
They were cheered by the joy of the servants on their arrival, and each for the sake of the others resolved to appear happy. It was very early in September; the season was fine, and from first seeing the place under the advantage of good weather, they received an impression in its favour which was of material service in recommending it to their lasting approbation. The situation of the house was good. High hills rose immediately behind, and at no great distance on each side; some of which were open downs, the others cultivated and woody.
The village of Barton was chiefly on one of these hills, and formed a pleasant view from the cottage windows. The prospect in front was more extensive; it commanded the whole of the valley, and reached into the country beyond. The hills which surrounded the cottage terminated the valley in that direction; under another name, and in another course, it branched out again between two of the steepest of them.
With the size and furniture of the house Mrs. Dashwood was upon the whole well satisfied; for though her former style of life rendered many additions to the latter indispensable, yet to add and improve was a delight to her; and she had at this time ready money enough to supply all that was wanted of greater elegance to the apartments. Perhaps in the spring, if I have plenty of money, as I dare say I shall, we may think about building.
These parlors are both too small for such parties of our friends as I hope to see often collected here; and I have some thoughts of throwing the passage into one of them with perhaps a part of the other, and so leave the remainder of that other for an entrance; this, with a new drawing room which may be easily added, and a bed-chamber and garret above, will make it a very snug little cottage.
I could wish the stairs were handsome. But one must not expect every thing; though I suppose it would be no difficult matter to widen them. I shall see how much I am before-hand with the world in the spring, and we will plan our improvements accordingly.
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