The Bok Report on Emma.docVIP

The Book Report on Emma Emma is one of the masterpieces of Jane Austen, a famous English women writer, who was born on 16 December 1775 at Steventon and died at a young age on 18 July 1817. Jane Austen was the seventh child in a family of eight.. Her father was a rector and after her father’ unexpected retirement, the family sold off everything ,including her piano ,and left Hampshire where she had spent the first 25 years of her life ,moving to bath .After her father’s death in 1805 ,she lived with her sister Cassandra and hypochondriac mother .She was mostly tutored at home ,and irregularly at school, but she received a broader education than many women of her time .She got a lot of supports on writing from her father .her father supported her daughter’s writing aspirations ,bought her paper and a writing desk ,and tried to help her get a publisher . Jane Austen was well connected with the middling-rich landed gentry that she portrayed in her novels .We can see this from most of her works .Such as Sense and Sensibility ,the story of the impoverished Dashwood sisters ,Marianne and Elinor ,who try to find proper husbands to secure their social position ,and Emma ,love stories between young people most of whom belong to middling-rich landed gentry. During her lifetime, she wrote six famous long novels. They are Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813)，Mansfield Park (1814), Emma (1816), Northanger Abbey and Persuasion. Among them ,Emma and Pride and Prejudice are her best-known books ,and Emma is maturer in her writing skills than Pride and Prejudice. Emma which was written in fifteen months is the climax of Jane Austen’s genius and the Parthenon of fiction .Emma, after being published has received great praise from some other writers in that period . E.M.Forster thought Jane Austen’s novels, Emma in particular , have filled other writers with an admiration which is beyond envy and outside emulation . Virginia Woolf called Austen “ The