... consider England's best novelist, was born in 1775 in Steventon, England. The seventh of eight children, Austen lived with her parents for her entire life, first in Steventon and later in Bath, Southampton, and Chawton. Her father was the village rector, ... local boarding school. Mrs. Goddard brings one of her boarders, Harriet Smith, a girl whose parentage is unknown. Emma admires Harriet for her beauty and for her respect of Emma and Hartfield. She resolves to pursue friendship with Harriet, and to improve the nave girl by detaching her from the ... is shown contemptibly in her att...

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... looking for a suitable husband. If a husband was of lower social degree, it was seen as a failure. Emma was horrified at the thought of Harriet marrying lower than she ought, to Mr Martin, and she says with relief after having refused the proposal, "It would have grieved me to lose your ... " their new friends; the end result is an improvement in them. Through their experiences of trying to alter and affect the lives of others (Harriet/ Tai) they realise the faults and weaknesses in their own characters. They become no longer convinced that their judgement is always correct and they lear...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate