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ROMOLA GARAI as Emma Woodhouse

Emma (2009)

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ROMOLA GARAI as EMMA WOODHOUSE

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Upon the whole, however, I am quite vain enough and well satisfied enough. The work is rather too light, and bright, and sparkling; it wants shade; it wants to be stretched out here and there with a long chapter of sense, if it could be had; if not, of solemn specious nonsense, about something unconnected with the story; an essay on writing, a critique on Walter Scott, or the history of Buonaparte, or anything that would form a contrast, and bring the reader with increased delight to the playfulness and epigrammatism of the general style.

♦ Jane Austen comments on  P r i d e  a n d  P r e j u d i c e  in a letter to her sister Cassandra, 1813

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jane austen’s novels + arts

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Favourite Headdresses + Outfits | Emma Woodhouse

E m m a  (2020), dir. Autumn de Wilde

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favourite novels x Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

‘ Admiration of landscape scenery is become a mere jargon. Every body pretends to feel and tries to describe with the taste and elegance of him who first defined what picturesque beauty was. I detest jargon of every kind, and sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in but what was worn and hackneyed out of all sense and meaning. ’

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The Dashwood Sisters

‘Marianne could not bear this.—She was already greatly displeased with Mrs. Ferrars; and such ill-timed praise of another, at Elinor's expense, though she had not any notion of what was principally meant by it, provoked her immediately to say with warmth,  "This is admiration of a very particular kind!—what is Miss Morton to us?—who knows, or who cares, for her?—it is Elinor of whom WE think and speak."  And so saying, she took the screens out of her sister-in-law's hands, to admire them herself as they ought to be admired.’

— Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

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Jane Bennet

“You are very cruel,” said her sister, “you will not let me smile, and are provoking me to it every moment.”

— Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice