R0610

Jane Austen's 'Emma'

Led by Hazel Jones

Monday 15 March to Friday 19 March

Cost: Residential: £379.00 Non-Residential: £253.00

Please arrive by noon on Monday. Course ends with lunch on Friday.

In Jane Austen's 'Emma', the author herself voices a warning to her readers: “Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.” On this course, we will be considering Jane Austen's employment of disguises and misunderstandings within the novel, and exploring the enigma of Emma's popularity as a heroine. Other sessions will focus on the biographical background to the writing of the novel, the geographical and social setting, the problems facing single women, the intrigues and deceptions practised by some of the characters, and the original style in which the text is written. As Jane Austen wrote 'Emma' at Chawton between 1814 and 1815, a day's visit to her house and Chawton Great House, which her brother Edward owned, will be included.

Hazel Jones www.janeaustencourses.co.uk has been running residential courses on Jane Austen since 1996. She is a self-confessed Jane Austen addict. She fell in love with Henry Tilney at eleven years old, but she has since been unfaithful to him with Darcy, Captain Wentworth and Mr Knightley. She has recently written a book on marriage in Jane Austen's time, drawing on the author's novels and letters and contemporary texts such as diaries, newspapers and conduct books.

The cost of the course includes transport to Chawton but not admission costs.

R0610

Jane Austen's 'Emma'

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