A Memoir of Jane Austen

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Observations on the Novels 119
had been lately born, she wrote thus: ‘I trust you will be as glad to
see my “Emma,” as I shall be to see your Jemima.’° She was very
fond of Emma, but did not reckon on her being a general favourite;
for, when commencing that work, she said, ‘I am going to take
a heroine whom no one but myself will much like.’° She would, if
asked, tell us many little particulars about the subsequent career
of some of her people.° In this traditionary way we learned that
Miss Steele never succeeded in catching the Doctor; that Kitty
Bennet was satisfactorily married to a clergyman near Pemberley,
while Mary obtained nothing higher than one of her uncle
Philip’s clerks, and was content to be considered a star in the
society of Meriton; that the ‘considerable sum’ given by Mrs.
Norris to William Price was one pound; that Mr. Woodhouse
survived his daughter’s marriage, and kept her and Mr. Knightley
from settling at Donwell, about two years; and that the letters
placed by Frank Churchill before Jane Fairfax, which she swept
away unread, contained the word ‘pardon.’ Of the good people in
‘Northanger Abbey’ and ‘Persuasion’ we know nothing more
than what is written: for before those works were published their
author had been taken away from us, and all such amusing communications
had ceased for ever.