“ I cannot make speeches, Emma. . . . If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more’ (E 3:13). Joan Elizabeth Klingel Ray
“ Sensibility, in Austen’s time, meant relying on one’s feelings as a guide to behavior, as a guide to truth. Joan Elizabeth Klingel Ray
“ Capping means to follow up with something good or better in a conversation. Joan Elizabeth Klingel Ray
“ The most famous courtesy book is Il Cortegiano by Baldassare Castiglione, published in 1528. Joan Elizabeth Klingel Ray
“ Emma is the eponymous heroine, which means having the name that is used as the title or name of something else.) Joan Elizabeth Klingel Ray
“ It is very unfair to judge of anybody’s conduct, without an intimate knowledge of their situation. Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual… Joan Elizabeth Klingel Ray
“ By paying attention to another woman (Edward to Lucy and Frederick to Louisa), about whom he doesn’t really care, each man hurts the woman he really loves and who really loves him. Joan Elizabeth Klingel Ray
“ Having lost her bloom in the eight years since her romance and break-up with Captain Wentworth before the novel begins, Anne is wispy and quiet, still in love with Wentworth, but feeling helpless to d… Joan Elizabeth Klingel Ray
