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“Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and a happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world ...

When Jane Austen talked of creating a heroine "whom no one but myself will much like", she meant Emma Woodhouse. If you actually count Miss Woodhouse’s screen credits it turns out she’s liked more ...

The post Clueless Reimagines Jane Austen’s Emma as Only Amy Heckerling Could appeared first on Consequence of Sound. A quarter century later, both films endure as beloved modern classics, but it’s ...

Style, wit, universality of theme and prose that hasn’t paled in 200 years makes Austen a world icon. But she also adopted a scrupulously realist method—she usually avoided writing dialogue between ...

Jane Austen — whose birthday is today, Dec. 16 — created some of the most rich, complicated female characters in literary history, which is one of the reasons she's so celebrated, even today. We've ...

Robin Gallaher Branch, a Fulbright scholar, is an adjunct professor in the Department of Religion and Philosophy at Christian Brothers University. Reach her at [email protected]. “Emma Woodhouse, ...

In celebration of Jane Austen’s birthday month, the Benson Center and the Boulder Public Library present the 1996 period comedy film Emma, featuring Gwyneth Paltrow, based on the 1815 novel of the ...