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Joan Austen-Leigh is the great-great-grandniece of Jane Austen, and in this novel she attempts to recreate the world of Highbury, the village in Austen's novel Emma. Emma herself and Mr. Knightly (now happily married and ensconced in Donwell Abbey; Mr. Woodhouse is dead) are not, however, the main characters. Instead Ms. Austen-Leigh fleshes out the first novel's minor characters, chiefly Mrs. Goddard the schoolmistress, who had a non-speaking role in Emma. The world she describes is nonetheless undeniably Austenesque: matchmaking and breathless hopes of ensnaring eligible bachelors figure prominently, and there is much anticipation and maneuvering at dancing parties.
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Jane Austen fans whose appetites haven't been satiated by the current adaptations of her work in film and TV productions may take some pleasure in this epistolary novel by Austen's great-great-grandniece. As in her earlier novel, A Visit to Highbury, Austen-Leigh attempts to enlarge on the story Austen constructed with such precision in Emma. Set in the Sussex village of Highbury, this extended version is told through the correspondence between Mrs. Goddard, mistress of the local school for girls, and her lonely sister, Mrs. Pinkney, now living in London. We learn that the Knightlys, the despicable Vicar Elton and his wife Augusta, Harriet and Robert Martin, the kind and beautiful Miss Elizabeth Martin and poor, chattering old Miss Bates are still thriving and carrying on about such matters as the importance of a new ball gown. Yet, there are big changes. Emma's family home, Hartfield, is now let to strangers. Mrs. Goddard rejects the sewing and crocheting that Emma did so brilliantly as "a most thorough-going waste of time." Even more unexpected in this world is Mrs. Goddard's praise for the bold way in which Mrs. Pinkney's niece runs away to Barbadoes with an Irish footman. Chiding her sister, Mrs. Goddard proclaims: "it is a new world, my dear Charlotte. We must all be prepared for change." Austen might have enjoyed such upheavals, but she would have rendered them with an exquisite, caustic irony that is missing from this bit of nostalgic fluff.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Joan Austen-Leigh is the great-great-grandniece of Jane Austen, and in this novel she attempts to recreate the world of Highbury, the village in Austen's novel Emma. Emma herself and Mr. Knightly (now happily married and ensconced in Donwell Abbey; Mr. Woodhouse is dead) are not, however, the main characters. Instead Ms. Austen-Leigh fleshes out the first novel's minor characters, chiefly Mrs. Goddard the schoolmistress, who had a non-speaking role in Emma. The world she describes is nonetheless undeniably Austenesque: matchmaking and breathless hopes of ensnaring eligible bachelors figure prominently, and there is much anticipation and maneuvering at dancing parties.
From Publishers Weekly
Jane Austen fans whose appetites haven't been satiated by the current adaptations of her work in film and TV productions may take some pleasure in this epistolary novel by Austen's great-great-grandniece. As in her earlier novel, A Visit to Highbury, Austen-Leigh attempts to enlarge on the story Austen constructed with such precision in Emma. Set in the Sussex village of Highbury, this extended version is told through the correspondence between Mrs. Goddard, mistress of the local school for girls, and her lonely sister, Mrs. Pinkney, now living in London. We learn that the Knightlys, the despicable Vicar Elton and his wife Augusta, Harriet and Robert Martin, the kind and beautiful Miss Elizabeth Martin and poor, chattering old Miss Bates are still thriving and carrying on about such matters as the importance of a new ball gown. Yet, there are big changes. Emma's family home, Hartfield, is now let to strangers. Mrs. Goddard rejects the sewing and crocheting that Emma did so brilliantly as "a most thorough-going waste of time." Even more unexpected in this world is Mrs. Goddard's praise for the bold way in which Mrs. Pinkney's niece runs away to Barbadoes with an Irish footman. Chiding her sister, Mrs. Goddard proclaims: "it is a new world, my dear Charlotte. We must all be prepared for change." Austen might have enjoyed such upheavals, but she would have rendered them with an exquisite, caustic irony that is missing from this bit of nostalgic fluff.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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