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Article: "It must be done in London": the suburbanization of Highbury.(AGM 2007: Vancouver)(Highbury, England)(Critical essay)
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- Persuasions: The Jane Austen Journal
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- January 1, 2007
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JANE AUSTEN'S FAMOUS LITERARY ADVICE to her niece Anna--"3 or 4 Families in a Country Village is the very thing to work on" (9 September 1814)--has been widely accepted as a summary statement of her own praxis, and Emma is the novel most frequently cited as the exemplar of Austen's focus on isolated and insulated country communities. From Walter Scott in the early nineteenth century to Nancy Mitford in the early twentieth, readers have commented on Austen's rigorous economy of scale. Scott likens her work to "the Flemish school of painting" (67), and Mitford focuses on the pleasures of its rural insularity: "nothing is so delightful as to sit down in a country village in ...
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Article: Edward Austen's Emma reads ...
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... ... novels (146); the poignant significance of Emma in Edward Austen's courtship of Emma Smith verifies this commendation. The Rev ... sporting interests: on 16 December 1828 Edward Austen married Emma Smith. Emma Smith had grown up within an extremely ...
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