Emma (70)

"I always deserve the best treatment,

because I never put up with any other."

The following books will introduce you to Emma, who said these words in Jane Austen's Emma.

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Austen, Jane. Emma (Intro by Ronald Blythe). London: Penguin, 1981.
- Arrogant, thoughtless, but splendid nevertheless--see why Emma was called "faultless in spite of all her faults."
Weldon, Fay. Letters to Alice on First Reading Jane Austen. New York: Carroll & Graf, 1990.
- Warm, witty essays on how reading Jane Austen's fiction is good practice for life.
Morgan, Susan. In the Meantime: Character and Perception in Jane Austen's Fiction. University of Chicago Press, 1980.
- Morgan shows how Emma's natural self-confidence, however attractive, prevents her from seeing that other people have their own feelings and viewpoint on the world, their own self whose boundaries she attempts to transgress.
Moffat, Wendy. "Identifying with Emma: Some Problems for the Feminist Reader." College English, 1991, 53, 45-58.
- Moffat argues that Emma's seeming autonomy is an illusion, and finds problems with fully identifying with Emma because of her acceptance of male (Mr. Knightley's) judgment in the end.