Emma
Novel by Jane AustenWikipedia
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Sep 16, 2026
Meg MasonGUEST
And then it's the most amazing thing when you then go back to the canon, you know, one writer that you've loved and it's totally a different book within that set that reaches you this time.
Meg MasonGUEST
And I've since read, and because of John Mullen writing about the fact that, you know, Emma is often the one that brings you in.
Meg MasonGUEST
It was for him and oddly it was for me as well as a teenager.
Meg MasonGUEST
And then after 40, it's Persuasion.
Meg MasonGUEST
And I'm not even sure I'd read Persuasion.
Meg MasonGUEST
And then I read it this year and I couldn't stop talking about it because it just, it's so desperately sort of nostalgic and poignant and sad and then so romantic.
Meg MasonGUEST
And then I was like, I should read Emma again as well.
Meg MasonGUEST
I'm like, this, this is unbearable.
Sabella DentonNARRATOR
Might not they use both rooms, and dance across the passage? It seemed the best scheme, and yet it was not so good, but that many of them wanted a better.
Sabella DentonNARRATOR
Emma said it would be awkward.
Sabella DentonNARRATOR
Mrs. Weston was in distress about the supper, and Mr. Woodhouse opposed it earnestly on the score of health.
Sabella DentonNARRATOR
It made him so very unhappy, indeed, that it could not be persevered in.
Sabella DentonNARRATOR
Oh, no, said he, it would be the extreme of imprudence.
Sabella DentonNARRATOR
I could not bear it for Emma.
Sabella DentonNARRATOR
Emma is not strong.
Sabella DentonNARRATOR
She would catch a dreadful cold.
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Sibella DentonNARRATOR
Volume One, Chapter One of Emma by Jane Austen.
Sibella DentonNARRATOR
This is a LibriVox recording.
Sibella DentonNARRATOR
All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain.
Sibella DentonNARRATOR
For more information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org. Volume One, Chapter One of Emma by Jane Austen.
Sibella DentonNARRATOR
Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence and had lived nearly 21 years in the world with very little to distress or vex her.
Sibella DentonNARRATOR
She was the youngest of the two daughters of a most affectionate, indulgent father, and had, in consequence of her sister's marriage, been mistress of his house from a very early period.
Sibella DentonNARRATOR
Her mother had died too long ago for her to have more than an indistinct remembrance of her caresses, and her place had been supplied by an excellent woman as governess, who had fallen little short of a mother in affection.
Andrew DaviesGUEST
And of course, a lot of people are not going to like that.
Nicholas DanverCORRESPONDENT
Another version of Emma who might die in childbirth.
Andrew DaviesGUEST
I just wanted to write the Jane Fairfax story in Emma.
Andrew DaviesGUEST
I just put in a postscript, really.
Andrew DaviesGUEST
After a year or two, Emma dies in childbirth.
Andrew DaviesGUEST
Mr. Knightley goes up to Yorkshire, brings back Jane Fairfax.
Andrew DaviesGUEST
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Nicholas DanverCORRESPONDENT
This is the second time you've adapted Emma, but yet you're still finding more things to do with it.
Robert MorrisonGUEST
And after Mansfield Park comes out, he lets it be known that Jane Austen can dedicate her next novel to him.
Robert MorrisonGUEST
And so if you open up Emma, which is published in 1816, it says to his royal highness, the prince regent, So he is, on one hand, you know, excess personified.
Robert MorrisonGUEST
And on the other, he's going, I saw J.M.W. Turner's painting this morning and I really think he's on to something.
Robert MorrisonGUEST
That range is characteristic of the Regency.
SeanHOST
Easy A released in 2010.
SeanHOST
85% directed by Will Gluck, starring Emma Stone, Penn Badgley, Amanda Bynes, Thomas Hayden Church, and Patricia Clarkson.
SeanHOST
Do you want the tagline? Go ahead.
SeanHOST
Let's not and say we did.
16 MINS LATER
Travis SetoPANELIST
For clueless are fun facts, Alicia Silverstone did not know how to correctly pronounce Haitians in the classroom scene.
Travis SetoPANELIST
Director Amy Heckerling told the crew not to correct her because she liked it so much and wanted it to be in the film.
Travis SetoPANELIST
Also, plot, characters, themes, and values are all based on Jane Austen's novel Emma.
Travis SetoPANELIST
Amy Heckerling was asked by Paramount to write a film for teenagers, so she instantly remembered the novel she read as a teenager.
speaker_6HOST
Right.
speaker_1HOST
Which brings us to the other essential Austen novel for understanding this architecture, and that's Emma.
speaker_6HOST
Oh, Emma.
speaker_1HOST
Now, if your cinematic comfort watch is the 1995 movie Clueless or really any story about a well-meaning meddler who absolutely cannot see the obvious match standing right in front of her, this is your holy text.
speaker_6HOST
Emma Woodhouse is a fascinating protagonist because she is essentially a malfunctioning human GPS who is fully convinced she knows the most efficient route to everyone else's heart.
speaker_1HOST
A malfunctioning GPS, I love that, because she's rich, she's profoundly bored, and she has zero self-awareness.
speaker_6HOST
Zero.
speaker_1HOST
We have to sit with this scene for a minute because it is agonizing.
speaker_3HOST
It has been a Bollywood musical, a zombie comedy, and the literal narrative template for both Bridget Jones's Diary and Fire Island.
speaker_2HOST
And Emma has been played by Gwyneth Paltrow, Anya Taylor-Joy, and famously transformed into a Beverly Hills high school comedy with Clueless.
speaker_2HOST
So why does Austen travel so incredibly well across time and culture?
speaker_3HOST
The source argues it is because of her elasticity regarding human behavior.
speaker_3HOST
That keeps the production budgets reasonable and the tone incredibly flexible.
speaker_2HOST
The Austen industry really shows how the idea of an adaptation count artificially inflates when a writer transcends being a person and becomes a genre.
speaker_2HOST
Clueless is Emma.
speaker_2HOST
Bridget Jones is Pride and Prejudice.
Jim ThayerHOST
My orange and white cat Charlie is positioned next to the microphone so all is ready and let's begin.
Jim ThayerHOST
What do these protagonists from famous novels have in common? Elizabeth Bennet from Pride and Prejudice, Anne Shirley from Anne of Green Gables, Frodo Baggins from Lord of the Ring, Harry Potter in the novels of that name, Joe March in Little Women, Huckleberry Finn in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
Jim ThayerHOST
What do these protagonists have in common? It's this.
Jim ThayerHOST
Readers love them.
Jim ThayerHOST
Each of these novels has become important to millions of people, and the main reason is that readers care deeply about the main characters.
Jim ThayerHOST
Readers can't remember all the plot complications of these novels, but they do remember the deep affection for the main characters.
Jim ThayerHOST
That's why readers often read these novels a second time.
Jim ThayerHOST
They want to be with the protagonists again.
MagdaHOST
Our girl Julie.
MagdaHOST
Our girl Julie is narrating Emma by Pride and Prejudice.
MagdaHOST
This is not going to be her first time.
MagdaHOST
Guys, I cannot speak.
MagdaHOST
It's funny.
MagdaHOST
Okay.
MagdaHOST
So Julie Andrews is going to be narrating Emma.
MagdaHOST
Obviously, this has been written by Jane Austen.
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