Paula Byrne. The Genius of Jane Austen: Her Love of Theatre and Why She Is a Hit in Hollywood
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Foreword to the New Edition
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction
The Novelist and the Theatre
Private Theatricals
The Professional Theatre
Plays and Actors
The Theatre and the Novels
Early Works
From Play to Novel
Sense and Sensibility
Pride and Prejudice
Lovers’ Vows
Mansfield Park
Emma
Why She Is a Hit in Hollywood
Illustrations
Picture Section
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Also by Paula Byrne
About the Author
About the Publisher
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Intriguingly, one of the playlets in the collection carries the same plot-line as Austen’s Emma. In Cecilia and Marian, a young, wealthy girl befriends a poor labourer’s daughter and ‘tastes the happiness of doing good’ when she feeds her new playmate plum cake and currant jelly:
Cecilia had now tasted the happiness of doing good. She walked a little longer in the garden, thinking how happy she had made Marian, how grateful Marian had shewed herself, and how her little sister would be pleased to taste currant jelly. What will it be, said she, when I give her some ribbands and a necklace! Mama gave me some the other day that were pretty enough; but I am tired of them now. Then I’ll look in my drawers for some old things to give her. We are just of a size, and my slips would fit her charmingly. Oh! how I long to see her well drest.54
