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Emma with her father in an illustration by Hugh Thomson. Mr Woodhouse, Emma's father, is a valetudinarian and is paranoid about his own and others' health. He is against eating cake, going outside, attending parties, and marriage, among other things, on the grounds that these might damage the health. Mr Woodhouse is fond of and attached to his ...
Emma entered into three marriages: Jane Fairfax and Frank Churchill, Emma Woodhouse and Mr Knightley, Harriet Smith and Robert Martin (Chris Hammond, 1898).. Marriage is a key theme in Jane Austen’s novels, especially Pride and Prejudice.
George Knightley is a principal character depicted by Jane Austen in her novel Emma, published in 1815. He is a landowner and gentleman farmer, though "having little spare money". [ 1 ] A lifetime friend of Emma 's, though nearly seventeen years older than she, he is one of the only characters willing to correct her when he believes her to be ...
In Emma, Emma Woodhouse serves as a direct reflection of Jane Austen's feminist characterization of female heroines, in terms of both female individuality and independence (romantically, financially, etc.). In terms of romantic independence, Emma's father, Henry Woodhouse, very consistently preaches against the idea of marriage.
Gwyneth Paltrow, Bill Clinton. Noam Galai/Getty Images for Clinton Global Initiative Gwyneth Paltrow effortlessly played the matchmaking Emma Woodhouse in the 1996 adaptation of Emma, even if the ...
Mr Elton, in Emma, demonstrates an excessive social ambition in proposing to the eponymous Emma Woodhouse, and once he is married later in the novel, he and his wife Augusta patronise the villagers and disgust Emma with their pretentiousness. In Pride and Prejudice, Mr Collins is an example of what a clergyman ought not to be. He is obsequious ...
Emma Slater, Sasha Farber Shutterstock(2) Emma Slater has broken her silence about the end of her marriage to fellow Dancing With the Stars pro Sasha Farber. “We’re still like family, so it ...
Emma Slater is requesting to terminate spousal support for her and Sasha Farber amid the dancers’ divorce.. According to court documents obtained by Us Weekly, Slater, 35, asked the court to ...