It is her bossy and ultimately clueless nature that drives the plot, which has very little action to speak of. Shapard addresses Emma’s unique place in the pantheon of Austen heroines – she’s independent, in charge of her household, and flawed.
In the preface to The Annotated Emma, David M. The Annotated Emma by Jane Austen , edited and annotated by David M. Shapard might well change my mind about this privileged young woman. Yet, as Jane Austen herself put it, “I am going to take a heroine whom no one but myself will much like.” I rather agree with Miss Austen’s assessment of her own creation, for I have never quite liked the novel because of the main character. Click here to read it.Įmma, Jane Austen’s longest novel, is the only one of her books named after her heroine. Note: The dress on the cover of this book is made with the machine-made net overlay that I described in an earlier post on this blog.
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