Emma

AcknowledgementsIntroductionJane Austen: A Brief ChronologyA Note on the TextEmmaAppendix A: The Composition and Reception of the NovelAusten’s Correspondence with John Murray and James Stanier ClarkeAusten’s “Plan of a Novel, According to Hints from Various Quarters”Review of Emma by Sir Walter Scott, The Quarterly Review (1815–1816)Critical Notices of Emma (The British Critic, 1816; The Gentleman’s Magazine, 1816)Appendix B: Social Class and Landed Society[Figure] Offchurchbury, Warwickshire, seat of the Knightley family, c. 1818From Jane Austen, “The History of England”From Edmund Burke, On Taste (1756)From Samuel Richardson, The History of Sir Charles Grandison (1754)Appendix C: The Landless: Gypsies and BastardsFrom William Cowper, The Task (1785)From “Notices Concerning the Scottish Gypsies,” Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine (April 1817)From William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765)Appendix D: Women, Married and UnmarriedFrom William. Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765)From Hannah More, Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education (1799)From the Journals and Letters of Agnes Porter (1791–1811)Appendix E: The Social Meaning of IllnessFrom Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (1776)From The Gentleman’s Magazine (December 1815)From Thomas Trotter, A View of the Nervous Temperament (1807)Appendix F: The Sale of Human IntellectFrom The Times (4 January 1815)Select Bibliography