Mrs. Elton

But yeah, in the case of Emma, then I was like, does that mean she's been adopted by a dragon? Does it mean she's also a dragon? Uh, and then I was just like, if you think about characters in Emma who work as dragons, then the next one I think about is Mrs.

Elton, who is the, um, the, uh, the [sighs] I wanna say priest, but it's not priest, is it? Are they say, do they say vicar? Parson.

Okay.

The, the, the parson's new wife who comes in and she's all frocks and feathers and being snooty to everybody.

To the second question, why was it never finished? I can give no satisfactory answer.

i think it will be generally admitted that there is much in it which promised well that some of the characters are drawn with her wonted vigor and some with a delicate discrimination peculiarly her own and that it is rich in her especial power of telling the story and bringing out the characters by conversation rather than by description It could not have been broken up for the purpose of using the materials in another fabric, for, with the exception of Mrs. Robert Watson, in whom a resemblance to the future Mrs. Elton is very discernible, it would not be easy to trace much resemblance between this and any of her subsequent works.

She must have felt some regret at leaving Tom Musgrave's character incomplete, yet he never appears elsewhere.

My own idea is, but it is only a guess, that the author became aware of the evil of having placed her heroine too low, in such a position of poverty and obscurity as, though not necessarily connected with vulgarity, has a sad tendency to degenerate into it, and therefore, like a singer who has begun on too low a note, she discontinued the strain.

She's very, very good.

Like, I mean, I think, I mean, uh, we talked about like- The, uh, Mr. Knightley, and you did shout out, uh, Mrs. Elton.

Like, um, all the other characters in the movie, like, as actors, like, they are going for it.

They are really committed, and I think a lot of them do a pretty solid job

When Admiral Croft, Captain Wentworth, or William Price appears on the scene, the other characters immediately take on a merely subsidiary interest, and this prominence is always that given by appreciation.

The distinction awarded to Mr. Collins or Mrs. Elton as the chief object of ridicule is of a different nature.

The only instance she cared to give us of a sailor who is not to be admired is Mary Crawford's uncle, the admiral, and even he is allowed to earn our esteem by disinterested kindness to William Price.

No doubt some of this enthusiasm was due to the spirit of the times when, as Edward Ferrars says, the Navy had fashion on its side.

Her estimate of her own brother's wedding may be better gathered from the account of that of Mr. Knightley and Emma.

The wedding was very much like other weddings, where the parties have no taste for finery and parade.

And Mrs. Elton, from the particulars detailed by her husband, thought it all extremely shabby and very inferior to her own.

Very little white satin, very few lace veils, a most pitiful business.

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.

She claims success for that of her governess and now wants even greater success for the lowly Harriet Smith.

Um, and she decided that this is what defined her as, as a writer.

Um, it-- She was born in December 1775 in a small village, um, Steventon, sixteen miles south of, uh, Basingstoke.

Her father was George Austen, a clergyman, um, but not a clergyman like Mr. Elton in, um, in Emma.

He was, uh, very well educated, cultivated, and very hardworking.

And she's thinking of charity as something she can dispense.

I also love the comparison with Mrs. Elton, who sees charity as a kind of style that I will do this and I will wear this kind of bonnet and I will have this kind of basket.

And this is what it will look like.

This is how I will be.

It isn't just that she learns that from him, it's that she knows, it's her own wiser voice within telling her to think these things through, prompted by him.

And then she learns to see beyond herself and to think more carefully, and she learns to care for her neighbors.

I think she definitely grows and changes through the novel and Mrs. Elton does not.

She's still the same person at the end that she was at the beginning.

did recognize that one

yes of course because she's wonderful and then tanya reynolds who played caroline bingley in this played mrs elton in the 2020 emma

of course i thought she looked so familiar

which um we actually just started watching the new ted lasso season and she is a character in this the new season so yeah i was like i'm just getting a lot of her

To the second question, why was it never finished? I can give no satisfactory answer.

i think it will be generally admitted that there is much in it which promised well that some of the characters are drawn with her wonted vigor and some with a delicate discrimination peculiarly her own and that it is rich in her especial power of telling the story and bringing out the characters by conversation rather than by description It could not have been broken up for the purpose of using the materials in another fabric, for, with the exception of Mrs. Robert Watson, in whom a resemblance to the future Mrs. Elton is very discernible, it would not be easy to trace much resemblance between this and any of her subsequent works.

She must have felt some regret at leaving Tom Musgrave's character incomplete, yet he never appears elsewhere.

My own idea is, but it is only a guess, that the author became aware of the evil of having placed her heroine too low, in such a position of poverty and obscurity as, though not necessarily connected with vulgarity, has a sad tendency to degenerate into it, and therefore, like a singer who has begun on too low a note, she discontinued the strain.