Classics, Writing, Literature, England, Young women, Fathers and daughters, Female friendship, Mate selection, Manners and customs, Woodhouse, Emma (Fictitious character), Man-woman relationships 

This book presents Jane Austen's novel with illuminations from various contexts, ranging from first reviews, to the entertainments of riddles and charades, the vogue of gothic fiction, the plight of governesses who had their situations compared to slavery, and the economy of English estates.--Publisher's description. 

Genre/Form: Bildungsromans
Fiction
Humorous fiction
Novels
Novels of manners
Romance fiction
Love stories
Aufsatzsammlung
Named Person: Emma Woodhouse, (Fictitious character); Jane Austen; Emma Woodhouse, (Fictitious character); Jane Austen
Material Type: Fiction, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Jane Austen; Frances Ferguson
ISBN: 032122504X 9780321225047
OCLC Number: 63147173
Notes: Includes contextual materials and early critical reviews.
Description: xxiv, 471 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Contents: Jane Austen biography --
Emma --
Jane Austen's letters --
Letters to her sister, Cassandra --
Letters to her novel-writing niece, Anna Austen Lefroy --
Correspondence with the librarian to the prince regent --
Money : from the 1790s to the regency (1811-1820) --
Riddles, charades, and riddle-like allusions --
What they were reading --
from The vicar of Wakefield / Oliver Goldsmith --
from The romance of the forest / Ann Radcliffe --
from Travels in France during the years 1787, 1788 and 1789 / Arthur Young --
Governesses, slaves, and wives --
from The governess; or the little female academy / Sarah Fielding --
from Thoughts upon slavery / John Wesley --
from "On the horrors of the slave trade" / William Wilberforce --
from The interesting narrative of the life and adventures of Olandah Equiano or Gustarus Vassa, the African / Olaudah Equiano --
from A vindication of the rights of woman / Mary Wollstonecraft --
from Shirley / Charlotte Bronte --
First reviews and later reactions --
from The quarterly review / Walter Scott --
The British critic / Anonymous Reviewer --
from A letter to W. S. Williams / Charlotte Bronte --
Remarks written on the end papers of Trollope's copy of Emma / Anthony Trollope --
from Lord Brabourne's introduction to Austen's letters / Lord Brabourne --
from Heroines of fiction / William Dean Howells.
Series Title: Longman cultural edition.
Other Titles: Emma
Responsibility: edited by Frances Ferguson.