Emma
In Our Time
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Jane Austen's Anxiety About Lady Bertram
I think Jane Austen has a sort of soft, ironic spot for these vegetable people. She likes Lady Bert, not doesn't like, but she presents with a sort of loving concern in Mansfield Park as well. And there is something about Emma, because we're inside her that he's terribly appealing, as is anybody were inside. At the same time, I still think you have to hold on to. There is a cruelty and something quite disturbing. You are misjudging her a bit. The point is that Jane Austen gives you the material to make your judgement. So the example you gave, which is a brilliant one, of Harriet Smith meeting the man she's rejected and
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