Jane Austen was a keen observer of her time. Now readers want to make her a mirror of our own.
,” gets Willoughby wrong, and Edmund Bertram, in “Mansfield Park,” gets Mary Crawford wrong. Emma gets everybody wrong. There might be a warning to the reader here: do not think that you are getting it right, either.
Frank stands to inherit the Churchill estate, but could be cut off if he marries a penniless woman like Jane over the objections of Mrs. Churchill. Frank and Jane both show up in Highbury, and much of the action is driven by Frank’s attempts to see Jane without raising suspicions that they are lovers. There are clues all along, but we miss or misinterpret them because Emma misses and misinterprets them. Emma thinks that Frank is courting her, but he’s only using her as a distraction.
That’s not good enough, though, for leading characters like Elizabeth Bennet, Elinor Dashwood, and Fanny Price. However dire their financial situation, and in every case it’s pretty dire, they want to marry for love. Mr. Darcy is fabulously wealthy, and Elizabeth, when her father dies, will have almost nothing, but she has no hesitation rejecting his first marriage proposal, because she hates him.
Most of Austen’s characters who are on the marriage market want to do better than five hundred a year, of course. Augusta Hawkins needn’t worry; in addition to her own fortune, she has her marriage to the local vicar, who has an income from tithes. According to Ivan Nottingham, one of the people who have studied Austen and money, with a thousand pounds a year you could afford a comfortable life with a staff of three female servants, a coachman, a footman, a carriage, and horses.
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