Finishing out the book strong!!! Knightley does some matchmaking of his own, we get one more engagement, Harriet's family is revealed, and Emma and Knightley get married! Topics discussed include Robbie and Harriet's engagement, the economics of dating in Jane Austen, and the Great Turkey Robberies of 1812.Study questions: Topics discussed include Robert and Harriet, whether Harriet settled, Emma and Harriet's friendship, the villain of the book, and what we think of the character of Emma.Funniest quote: "Much of this, I have no doubt, she may thank you for.” “Me!” cried Emma, shaking her head.—“Ah! poor Harriet!” She checked herself, however, and submitted quietly to a little more praise than she deserved.Questions moving forward: What will each movie focus on/let go of? Who wins the BOOK? Emma and Harriet!Glossary of People, Places, and Things: FriendsNext Episode: The first half of Emma (1996) starring Gwenyth PaltrowWE'RE GOING LIVE!!!! Get your tickets HERE! The show is November 18 at 4:00 PM EST at Caveat NYC, and will be livestreamed for those of you abroad! Early bird tickets are $18, and livestream tickets are $10. There will be games, chaotic live coverage of Austen content, popcorn, exclusive merch, and more!! We cannot WAIT to meet some of you in person. Our show art was created by Torrence Browne, and our audio is produced by Graham Cook. For bios and transcripts, check out our website at podandprejudice.com. Pod and Prejudice is transcribed by speechdocs.com. To support the show, check out our Patreon!Instagram: @podandprejudiceTwitter: @podandprejudiceFacebook: Pod and PrejudiceYoutube: Pod and PrejudiceMerch store: https://www.teepublic.com/stores/pod-and-prejudice?ref_id=23216

THE PENULTIMATE BOOK EPISODE! Emma and Jane officially become friends, Mrs. Weston has her baby, Knightley tells his brother about him and Emma, and Emma tells her dad. Topics discussed include regency era obstetrics, Mrs. Elton's smugness, jacks, and the age gap.Study questions: Topics discussed include the shifting dynamics between the characters, Mrs. Elton's behavior, Emma and Jane's friendship, Knightley's love for Emma, and Anna Weston.Funniest quote: “'It is to be a secret, I conclude,' said he. 'These matters are always a secret, till it is found out that everybody knows them. Only let me be told when I may speak out. I wonder whether Jane has any suspicion.' He went to Highbury the next morning, and satisfied himself on that point. He told her the news."Questions moving forward: Will Harriet come back married? Will Emma and Harriet become friends again? Will we have a Knighthouse wedding?Who wins the chapters? Jane!Glossary of Terms and Phrases:caps (n): bonnetsdint (n): a blow or stroke, typically one made with a weapon in fightingsagacious (adj): wiseNext Episode: FINISH THAT BOOK, BABY! (Chapters 54-55 or Vol. III Chapters 18-19)Our show art was created by Torrence Browne, and our audio is produced by Graham Cook. For bios and transcripts, check out our website at podandprejudice.com. Pod and Prejudice is transcribed by speechdocs.com. To support the show, check out our Patreon!Instagram: @podandprejudiceTwitter: @podandprejudiceFacebook: Pod and PrejudiceYoutube: Pod and PrejudiceMerch store: https://www.teepublic.com/stores/pod-and-prejudice?ref_id=23216

If we loved these chapters less, we might be able to talk about them more. Which would be hard, because this is a long one. All we have to say is KNIGHTLEY LOVES EMMA! Also, Frank explains himself and Knightley hears him out, and Knightley decides to move in with Emma. Topics discussed include Knightley's jealousy, Austen's iconic romance writing, couples gossiping, and Knightley as a feminist icon.Study questions: Topics discussed include Frank's redemption arc, whether Frank is more Churchill or Weston, Knightley's big reveal and how he compares to other Austen heartthrobs, friends to lovers, the Hartfield move, and the power balance in age difference couples.Funniest quote: 1. "Mr. Knightley, always so kind, so feeling, so truly considerate for every body, would never deserve to be less worshipped than now; and it really was too much to hope even of Harriet, that she could be in love with more than three men in one year."2. “He trifles here,” said he, “as to the temptation. He knows he is wrong, and has nothing rational to urge.—Bad."3. “Nay, nay, read on.—You will find how very much he suffers.” “I hope he does,” Questions moving forward: What's going to happen when Emma tells Harriet? Who wins the chapters? Knighthouse!!!!!!!!!Glossary of Terms and Phrases: impute (v): attributecaviller (n): quibbler, petty disputantGlossary of People, Places, and Things: Monday morning quarterbacking, Friday Night Lights, Gilmore Girls, ShrekNext Episode: Volume III Chapters 16-17 or Chapters 52-53Our show art was created by Torrence Browne, and our audio is produced by Graham Cook. For bios and transcripts, check out our website at podandprejudice.com. Pod and Prejudice is transcribed by speechdocs.com. To support the show, check out our Patreon!Instagram: @podandprejudiceTwitter: @podandprejudiceFacebook: Pod and PrejudiceYoutube: Pod and PrejudiceMerch store: https://www.teepublic.com/stores/pod-and-prejudice?ref_id=23216

Harriet reveals who she's in love with and Emma realizes something important about herself....that's right, Emma loves KNIGHTLEY! Plus, we get a bit of Jane's side of the story. Topics discussed include Emma being a lady himbo, the devastating end (???) of Robert Martin, the possibility that Jane Austen invented shipping, and Emma's Ben and Jerry's playlist.Study questions: Topics discussed include the comparison between Jane and Harriet, Knightley's feelings about Harriet, Harriet and Emma's friendship, Emma's feelings for Knightley, and Jane Austen's feelings about all of it. Funniest quote: "Mr. Weston had thought differently; he was extremely anxious to shew his approbation to Miss Fairfax and her family, and did not conceive that any suspicion could be excited by it; or if it were, that it would be of any consequence; for “such things,” he observed, “always got about.” Emma smiled, and felt that Mr. Weston had very good reason for saying so."Questions moving forward: Does Mr. Knightley love Harriet? Does he love Emma? Frank and Jane...why?Who wins the chapters? Jane Fairfax!Glossary of Terms and Phrases:captious (adj.): tending to find fault or raise petty objections.expiation (n): the act of making amends or reparation for guilt or wrongdoing; atonement.tautology (n): the saying of the same thing twice in different words, generally considered to be a fault of style.Glossary of People, Places, and Things: Zoey 101, Gilmore Girls, Mean Girls, Reylo, Adele, Taylor Swift, Olivia Rodrigo, M3gan, WickedNext Episode: Vol. III Chapters 13-15 or Chapters 49-51Our show art was created by Torrence Browne, and our audio is produced by Graham Cook. For bios and transcripts, check out our website at podandprejudice.com. Pod and Prejudice is transcribed by speechdocs.com. To support the show, check out our Patreon!Instagram: @podandprejudiceTwitter: @podandprejudiceFacebook: Pod and PrejudiceYoutube: Pod and PrejudiceMerch store: https://www.teepublic.com/stores/pod-and-prejudice?ref_id=23216

There's a LOT going on in this episode. This is the humbling of Emma Woodhouse. Buckle up.Emma begins to realize she might be the problem, Jane finally accepts a governess position and promptly falls ill. Knightley almost kisses Emma's hand, Mrs. Churchill DIES, and Jane starts avoiding Emma. And FINALLY, it is revealed that Jane and Frank have been LONG ENGAGED?!?!? Study questions: Topics discussed include Emma's repentance, Jane's avoidance of Emma, a deep dive into the engagement, and whether Frank Churchill is the villain of this story.Funniest quote: "It was felt as such things must be felt. Every body had a degree of gravity and sorrow; tenderness towards the departed, solicitude for the surviving friends; and, in a reasonable time, curiosity to know where she would be buried. Goldsmith tells us, that when lovely woman stoops to folly, she has nothing to do but to die; and when she stoops to be disagreeable, it is equally to be recommended as a clearer of ill-fame. Mrs. Churchill, after being disliked at least twenty-five years, was now spoken of with compassionate allowances. In one point she was fully justified. She had never been admitted before to be seriously ill. The event acquitted her of all the fancifulness, and all the selfishness of imaginary complaints."Questions moving forward: Why was Frank flirting with Emma? Who wins the chapters? Emma!Glossary of Terms and Phrases:ostler (n): a man employed to look after the horses of people staying at an inn.Glossary of People, Places, and Things: Oliver Goldsmith, Bojack Horseman, Logan Huntzberger Next Episode: Vol. III Chapters 11-12 or Chapters 47 and 48Our show art was created by Torrence Browne, and our audio is produced by Graham Cook. For bios and transcripts, check out our website at podandprejudice.com. Pod and Prejudice is transcribed by speechdocs.com. To support the show, check out our Patreon!Instagram: @podandprejudiceTwitter: @podandprejudiceFacebook: Pod and PrejudiceYoutube: Pod and PrejudiceMerch store: https://www.teepublic.com/stores/pod-and-prejudice?ref_id=23216

Everyone goes to Donwell to pick strawberries, Jane is offered a job, and Emma and Jane have a moment. The next day, we endure Box Hill-gate, where Emma puts her foot FULLY in her mouth. Topics discussed include farmer cosplaying, NYC summers, Harriet's prospects, and Frank's MOOD.Study questions: Topics discussed include Jane's fatigue, Emma and Jane's talk, Frank's flirting, Box Hill-gate and Emma's reaction to being called out.Funniest quote: "You are sick of prosperity and indulgence. Cannot you invent a few hardships for yourself and be contented to stay?"Questions moving forward: Why did Jane leave? Will she take a job? Will the Campbells come? Will Knightley and Emma make up? Will Emma apologize to Miss Bates?Who wins the chapters? The Bates familyGlossary of Terms and Phrases:arrear (n): money that is owed and should have been paid earlier. cameo (n): a piece of jewelry, typically oval in shape, consisting of a portrait in profile.hautboy (n): an archaic form of oboe.pertinacity (n): the quality of being determined to achieve a particular aim despite difficulties or opposition.Glossary of People, Places, and Things: Roy Kent, The Last of Us, Luke Danes, Parks and RecNext Episode: Vol. III Chapters 8-10 or Chapters 44-46Check us out on the North Coast Podcast!Our show art was created by Torrence Browne, and our audio is produced by Graham Cook. For bios and transcripts, check out our website at podandprejudice.com. Pod and Prejudice is transcribed by speechdocs.com. To support the show, check out our Patreon!Instagram: @podandprejudiceTwitter: @podandprejudiceFacebook: Pod and PrejudiceYoutube: Pod and PrejudiceMerch store: https://www.teepublic.com/stores/pod-and-prejudice?ref_id=23216

Lots of shenanigans in this week's chapters! Frank rescues Harriet from a dramatic encounter, and Emma gets ideas. Harriet is FINALLY over Elton and she burns the band-aid to prove it! Knightley develops a theory about Frank Churchill's intentions. Topics discussed include shitty gifts from our exes, regency era dudebros, regency era Bananagrams, and being team Knighthouse.Study questions: Topics discussed include the purpose of the mugging, Harriet's decision to never marry, Knightley's POV, Jane and Frank, Frank's intentions with Emma.Funniest quote: "From that day to this, I never mentioned it to a soul that I know of. At the same time, I will not positively answer for my having never dropt a hint, because I know I do sometimes pop out a thing before I am aware. I am a talker, you know; I am rather a talker; and now and then I have let a thing escape me which I should not. I am not like Jane; I wish I were. I will answer for it she never betrayed the least thing in the world."Questions moving forward: Who does Knightley love? What is going on between Frank and Jane? What about Mr. Martin???Who wins the chapters? Mr. KnightleyGlossary of Terms and Phrases:court plaister (n): a plaster, composed of isinglass on silk, formerly used to cover superficial wounds.Glossary of People, Places, and Things: Paul Rudd, the Romani or Roma people, Friends, Harriet the Spy, Gilmore GirlsNext Episode: Volume III Chapters 6 and 7 or Chapters 42 and 43Our show art was created by Torrence Browne, and our audio is produced by Graham Cook. For bios and transcripts, check out our website at podandprejudice.com. Pod and Prejudice is transcribed by speechdocs.com. To support the show, check out our Patreon!Instagram: @podandprejudiceTwitter: @podandprejudiceFacebook: Pod and PrejudiceYoutube: Pod and PrejudiceMerch store: https://www.teepublic.com/stores/pod-and-prejudice?ref_id=23216

Diving into Volume the Third! Frank returns and we FINALLY get our ball at the Crown Inn. Knightley saves the day, and then he and Emma share a dance. Topics discussed include AFC Richmond as Austen characters, family dinner parties, puppies, and tallow candles.Study questions: Topics discussed include whether Emma is over Frank, why Frank is being weird, Emma's reaction to Frank's weirdness, the ball, Elton's cruelty, why Knightley admits he's wrong, and why the Knightley/Emma exchange is so sexy.Funniest quote: "Emma perceived that her taste was not the only taste on which Mr. Weston depended, and felt, that to be the favourite and intimate of a man who had so many intimates and confidantes, was not the very first distinction in the scale of vanity."Questions moving forward: How will this fadge with Emma and Knightley? Why is Frank being weird? What's going to happen between him and all the ladies? What about Robert Martin!??Who wins the chapters? Mr. Knightley, obviously!Glossary of Terms and Phrases:puppyism (n): youthful folly; extreme meanness, affectation, conceit, or impudence.Glossary of People, Places, and Things: Ted Lasso, The PowerNext Episode: Chapters 39-41 OR Volume III Chapters 3-5Tune in to Likewise on May 17th at 7PM EST to hear us chat with Audrey Bellezza and Emily Harding about their new book, Emma of 83rd Street.Our show art was created by Torrence Browne, and our audio is produced by Graham Cook. For bios and transcripts, check out our website at podandprejudice.com. Pod and Prejudice is transcribed by speechdocs.com. To support the show, check out our Patreon!Instagram: @podandprejudiceTwitter: @podandprejudiceFacebook: Pod and PrejudiceYoutube: Pod and PrejudiceMerch store: https://www.teepublic.com/stores/pod-and-prejudice?ref_id=23216

Finishing out Volume the Second strong! Frank is coming home and Emma is having feelings about it. Plus, Mr. Weston spills the tea on Mrs. Churchill. Topics discussed include the post-college job market, wax candles, the source of Augusta's wealth, the pick me girl, upstarts, and the mystery of the Tupmans.Study questions: Topics discussed include why Jane doesn't want to be a governess yet, Emma's reaction to Frank's return, what we've learned about Mrs. Churchill, Emma's lifestyle changes, and a Volume the Second retrospective. Plus, predictions for Volume the Third!Funniest quote: "John Knightley only was in mute astonishment.—That a man who might have spent his evening quietly at home after a day of business in London, should set off again, and walk half a mile to another man’s house, for the sake of being in mixed company till bed-time, of finishing his day in the efforts of civility and the noise of numbers, was a circumstance to strike him deeply. A man who had been in motion since eight o’clock in the morning, and might now have been still, who had been long talking, and might have been silent, who had been in more than one crowd, and might have been alone!—Such a man, to quit the tranquillity and independence of his own fireside, and on the evening of a cold sleety April day rush out again into the world!—Could he by a touch of his finger have instantly taken back his wife, there would have been a motive; but his coming would probably prolong rather than break up the party. John Knightley looked at him with amazement, then shrugged his shoulders, and said, “I could not have believed it even of him."Who wins the chapters? Mr. Weston!Glossary of Terms and Phrases:physic (v): treat with medicine.Glossary of People, Places, and Things: Joanna Newsom, Andy Samberg, Taylor Swift, Hymen (God), The Last of UsNext Episode: Volume III Chapters 1-2 OR Chapters 37-38Our show art was created by Torrence Browne, and our audio is produced by Graham Cook. For bios and transcripts, check out our website at podandprejudice.com. Pod and Prejudice is transcribed by speechdocs.com. To support the show, check out our Patreon!Instagram: @podandprejudiceTwitter: @podandprejudiceFacebook: Pod and PrejudiceYoutube: Pod and PrejudiceMerch store: https://www.teepublic.com/stores/pod-and-prejudice?ref_id=23216

Outtakes: Bingo night, The Last of Us, the Bubonic Plague, Shakespeare's birthday, and Becca's internet troubles.What We're Reading/Watching/Listening To: Becca recommends Brandi Carlile, Molly recommends One of Us is Lying, and BOTH Becca and Molly recommend The Last of Us.Our show art was created by Torrence Browne, and our audio is produced by Graham Cook. For bios and transcripts, check out our website at podandprejudice.com. Pod and Prejudice is transcribed by speechdocs.com. To support the show, check out our Patreon!Instagram: @podandprejudiceTwitter: @podandprejudiceFacebook: Pod and PrejudiceYoutube: Pod and PrejudiceMerch store: https://www.teepublic.com/stores/pod-and-prejudice?ref_id=23216