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Jane Fairfax (Jane Austen Entertainments) (Paperback)

by Joan Aiken (Author) "The marriage of Miss Jane Bates to Lieutenant Fairfax was accompanied by the usual good omens: church bells rang, the sun shone, and many handkerchiefs..." (more)
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  • Paperback: 256 pages
  • Publisher: Phoenix; New edition edition (26 Sep 1996)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0575400420
  • ISBN-13: 978-0575400429
  • Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 13 x 1.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 468,642 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Joan Aiken takes "Emma" and tells the story from Jane Fairfax's point of view. What of Jane's early years with Mrs and Miss Bates and her childhood friendship with Emma Woodhouse? What of her years spent with the Campbells in London and the West Indies? And what of the summer spent at Weymouth?
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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Entertaining and enthralling; done with lightness of touch, 31 Jul 1999
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One of the teases in Emma, that most teasing of books, is that it leaves you wanting to know more about Jane Fairfax, and the feeling that Jane is probably the more interesting woman of the two. And Joan Aiken tells us more. She tells us what it was like for Jane, growing up in three rooms with two old ladies and wearing the Wodehouse girls' cast off clothes; what it was like leaving Highbury for London; and what really happened at Weymouth. She looks at the stark future facing Jane, if she had not met Frank Churchill. And she takes us on through the events of Emma, who missess so much, telling us what Jane was going through. Only Jane Austin is Jane Austin, but in many ways this is the more interesting book. It wears it two hundred years of hindsight lightly. Enjoy it, you are in safe hands.
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Very Entertaining, 26 April 2000
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This book gives us more depth to a very intersting character from Emma. It also gives more insight into the relationship between Jane and Frank Churchill, whilst at the same time showing us a different perspective on some of the events and people in Emma. It also shows what a grave future Jane really has to expect.
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5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars not shockingly bad, being not interesting enough, 10 Jun 2001
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Maybe it's me. Maybe I read this book with the wrong attitude. I must confess I never cared a lot for Jane Fairfax in the first place, while reading "Emma". But I liked "Emma" so much that I thought it interesting to hear the story told from another perspective. Well, partly, that is true. But the author takes such a long time- half the book- to get to the point where Jane comes to Highbury and sets off into the plot of "Emma" that any interest I ever had in Jane Fairfax was exhausted to a point where only the mention of Emma and Frank Churchill kept me reading on.

I cannot agree with my fellow reviewers and say that in the original novel by Jane Austen Jane Fairfax is more interesting than Emma. Emma is a beautiful, complex and -what is most important- fallible human being, Jane is the perfect virtuous well-behaved proper girl she is always contrasted with. I must admit that Jane is a little slighted in "Emma", she is mainly a plot device. But in this book, she is worse: she in a stereotype. And so is Emma, which made me really angry. They are shallow, ill-made and only in name like anything Jane Austen ever produced. The point of this book was- for me, at least- to provide Jane Fairfax's angle on the "Emma"-plot, but there it let out terribly. We learn almost nothing new, the encounters with Emma are dull and predictable and the encounters with Mr. Knightley and other caracters are slight and even more predictable. As for Frank Churchill: Jane Austen's whole point in writing Jane Fairfax was to show how completely wrong Emma is about her. And Joan Aiken makes her right, by introducing this rediculous Dixon-nonsense, and the way Jane consented to engage herself to Frank under these circumstances was so outrageously out of character that from that point I refused to take the book seriously.

Comparing this book with "Emma" is bad for both books. This one can only look as artificial and shallow as a really bad copy of a great masterpiece (which is exactly what it is) and to "Emma" it would be insulting.

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I have read some attempts at Jane Austen sequels and spin offs and - of course - none could come anywhere near the original novels, but Aiken's story is among the worst: almost as... Read more
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