18th century writing
As the course of time changes and the vast varieties of writing nearly stays the same, these three Chapter One’s overviews have some interesting insights and description of the character’s relationships and the conflicts among them. As the three authors take on the day and age of a man’s world set back in the 1800’s, and for readers learning that the three authors are actually sisters who lost their mother at an early age. Jane Austen’s work dates back to 1811, writer of Pride and Prejudice, and Mansfield Park. Her work was published anonymously, until after her death (Austen 361). Emily Bronte is the second of the three daughters, only writing one novel Wuthering Heights, published in 1847. As women were not taken seriously as to men, she wrote under the name Ellis Bell. Only after her death was it revealed that she was the author of Wuthering Heights (Bronte 368). Charlotte Bronte was the eldest of the three sisters, Jane Eyre was the first published novel she wrote in 1847. Alike her sister she used a different
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Woodhouse, Emma’s father, was an older gentleman, a nervous man, easily depressed, fond of everybody that he was used to, and hating to part with them (362). Is in love with Miss Taylor who had married another man. Being that she was the governess for his two daughters for the last 16 years. Miss Taylor now married and left, only to live a half a mile away. He is left with an empty house only to be accompanied by his youngest daughter, Emma, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition who at the rightful age of 21 still hasn’t left (Austen 362). While his latest wife has passed, when the children were too young to remember, and his eldest daughter married, moved away, has children, and only visits through the holidays. Emma being the matchmaker for Miss Tylor, is left to try and please her father and herself of the discomfort of emptiness that longs her for her