A study in the Journal of Aging Research found that babies born during the autumn months are more likely to live to 100 than those born during the rest of the year.
As someone who had a baby three months ago, let me be the first to say NO FEELING EMBARRASSED about how much reading gets done when life is crazy! Unrelated, I’m so jealous of that Pooh shirt!!
“Poor, sweet, sheltered Emma” she may be, but I feel badly for her, despite all the advantages she’s had in her not-quite-21-years. To me, Emma is very much a bird in a gilded cage. Her life in Highbury has been very confining. As I recall, at one point in the novel she complains of never having seen the sea, despite living on an island. Added to that, there is the burden of always having to be in attendance on her dithering old dad, with his constant fear of drafts, both real and imaginary.
Emma Woodhouse is unique among Jane Austen heroines. The Dashwood sisters travel from Norland Park in the east of England to Barton Cottage in the west country in the course of “Sense and Sensibility”, with the older girls, Elinor and Marianne, enjoying a trip to London. In “Pride and Prejudice”, Elizabeth Bennet leaves her Hertfordshire home for a visit with friends in Kent, and by the end of the novel, she and her older sister are wed and move to their new homes in Derbyshire in the north of England. In “Northanger Abbey”, Catherine Morland leaves her family home to spend the winter months in Bath with friends of her parents, before travelling to Northanger Abbey, and thence home again to be married. Born in Portsmouth, Fanny Price is taken as a child to be raised by relatives in the country in “Mansfield Park”, before returning to Portsmouth and then back to Mansfield Park.
But Emma Woodhouse remains in Highbury for the whole course of the novel that bears her name. Other characters come and go, but she stays put. Doesn’t Frank Churchill ride madly off to London and back one day just to get a haircut? Even getting married does not result in any change of scenery for Emma, as the novel closes with her staying at home with her father, as before, with her husband moving in as a sort of long-term houseguest. So, I think Emma gets the short straw in the Jane Austen plot resolutions.
Happy Birthday, Alyssa!
Thank you!!!
I can't see the difference between using the Pomodoro Timer and just setting the timer on my microwave.
going to watch the boehmian lecture you shared!!! so interesting!!
As someone who had a baby three months ago, let me be the first to say NO FEELING EMBARRASSED about how much reading gets done when life is crazy! Unrelated, I’m so jealous of that Pooh shirt!!
“Poor, sweet, sheltered Emma” she may be, but I feel badly for her, despite all the advantages she’s had in her not-quite-21-years. To me, Emma is very much a bird in a gilded cage. Her life in Highbury has been very confining. As I recall, at one point in the novel she complains of never having seen the sea, despite living on an island. Added to that, there is the burden of always having to be in attendance on her dithering old dad, with his constant fear of drafts, both real and imaginary.
Emma Woodhouse is unique among Jane Austen heroines. The Dashwood sisters travel from Norland Park in the east of England to Barton Cottage in the west country in the course of “Sense and Sensibility”, with the older girls, Elinor and Marianne, enjoying a trip to London. In “Pride and Prejudice”, Elizabeth Bennet leaves her Hertfordshire home for a visit with friends in Kent, and by the end of the novel, she and her older sister are wed and move to their new homes in Derbyshire in the north of England. In “Northanger Abbey”, Catherine Morland leaves her family home to spend the winter months in Bath with friends of her parents, before travelling to Northanger Abbey, and thence home again to be married. Born in Portsmouth, Fanny Price is taken as a child to be raised by relatives in the country in “Mansfield Park”, before returning to Portsmouth and then back to Mansfield Park.
But Emma Woodhouse remains in Highbury for the whole course of the novel that bears her name. Other characters come and go, but she stays put. Doesn’t Frank Churchill ride madly off to London and back one day just to get a haircut? Even getting married does not result in any change of scenery for Emma, as the novel closes with her staying at home with her father, as before, with her husband moving in as a sort of long-term houseguest. So, I think Emma gets the short straw in the Jane Austen plot resolutions.