Frank Churchill

While the eponymous heroine, Emma, is vivacious, clever, and, let's face it, self-regarding, she slowly learns through mistake after mistake that she must wield her social power with greater care and attention to other people's feelings.

Melvin's guests demonstrate how subtly Austen creates each character, from the slightly pompous but stable and wise Mr. Knightley, through to the mysterious governess, Jane Fairfax, and her lover, Frank Churchill, who Emma erroneously believes is destined to marry herself.

After listening to this episode, characterized by one of the liveliest and most entertaining examples of verbal jousting between Melvin and his guests, I defy you not to want to return to Emma or read it for the first time.

Enjoy listening.

This writer we know to be Jane Austen, and the novel was Emma, described by some of the speakers in our program today as her masterpiece, and by one as the greatest novel written in English.

The plot revolves around Emma Woodhouse, described by Austen as a heroine whom no, whom no one but myself will much like.

Several of the other characters do very much like her, though, in particular, for a while, the conceited vicar Mr. Elton, the gentlemanly Mr. Knightley, and in his way, the charming Frank Churchill.

Emma, meanwhile, tries to arrange marriages for her female friends.

But with Mr. Knightley now unable to avoid Hartfield, what will become of his quarrel with Emma? What of the promised visit from Mr.

Frank Churchill? And though Emma is certain her manipulations with Mr.

Elton will soon pay off, could there be any truth in a shrewd observation from a fresh arrival to Hartfield? Now, if you're sitting comfortably, then I'll begin.

From the Noiser Podcast Network, this is Emma, Part 6.

And ever since his particular kindness last September twelve months in writing that note at twelve o'clock at night on purpose to assure me that there was no scarlet fever at Cobham, I have been convinced there could not be a more feeling heart, nor a better man in existence.

If anybody can deserve him, it must be Miss Taylor.

Where is the young Frank Churchill? Said Mr.

John Knightley.

He was looked on as sufficiently belonging to the place to make his merits and prospects a kind of common concern.

Mr. Frank Churchill was one of the boasts of Highbury, and a lively curiosity to see him prevailed, though the compliment was so little returned that he had never been there in his life.

His coming to visit his father had been often talked of, but never achieved.

Now, upon his father's marriage, it was very generally proposed, as a most proper attention, that the visit should take place.

There was not a dissentient voice on the subject, either when Mrs. Perry drank tea with Mrs. and Miss Bates, or when Mrs. and Miss Bates returned the visit.

Now was the time for Frank Churchill to come among them, and the hope strengthened when it was understood that he had written to his new mother on the occasion.

For a few days, every morning visit in Highbury included some mention of the handsome letter Mrs. Weston had received.

I suppose you have heard of the handsome letter Mr. Churchill has written to Mrs. Weston? It was a very handsome letter indeed.

It's a fantastic, you can read it almost like a murder mystery, you know, that it has a secret at the heart of it.

What is Frank Churchill's relationship to the village? What is his relationship to Jane? Who is Emma, in fact, truly in love with? who is Harriet in love with.

These questions, they play out.

The book is full of riddles.

He was looked on as sufficiently belonging to the place to make his merits and prospects a kind of common concern.

Mr. Frank Churchill was one of the boasts of Highbury, and a lively curiosity to see him prevailed, though the compliment was so little returned that he had never been there in his life.

His coming to visit his father had been often talked of but never achieved.

Now, upon his father's marriage, it was very generally proposed, as a most proper attention, that the visit should take place.

There was not a dissentient voice on the subject, either when Mrs. Perry drank tea with Mrs. and Miss Bates, or when Mrs. and Miss Bates returned the visit.

Now was the time for Mr. Frank Churchill to come among them; and the hope strengthened when it was understood that he had written to his new mother on the occasion.

For a few days, every morning visit in Highbury included some mention of the handsome letter Mrs. Weston had received.

"I suppose you have heard of the handsome letter Mr. Frank Churchill has written to Mrs. Weston? I understand it was a very handsome letter, indeed.

well because I think he's like it's not just

the it wasn't just her saying something to Miss Bates it's the fact that she joined in with Frank Churchill on it and he can't stand Frank Churchill and like Frank Churchill is like the worst of society in mr knightley's eyes when it comes to like good manners and so for emma to stoop to that level he was like i thought you were better than this i thought you were better than frank you know

you know what it got me better if you had put a ring on it instead of having me out here with this suck a dry head head and shoulder loser It's

like, okay, but you know, I keep on, sorry, I'm so single y'all, but it's like, and I've fallen for too many of my guy friends and they've all, they've done me like a Mr. Knightley except for proposed.