The Amateur Austenite

Does Mrs Weston love Mr Weston?

Does Jane love Frank?

We mention the webseries Rational Creatures which you can find on Youtube

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Emma is judgy, Miss Bates is the least selfish character and Mrs Weston may be the original matchmaker.

Highbury is a one horse town where Miss Bates takes no breaths.

There's even a journal article about Winnie-the-Pooh: Pathology in the Hundred Acre Wood: a neurodevelopmental perspective on A.A. Milne

Perhaps we could learn a couple of things from Emma. We decide Emma might be bi or ace. Rachel has a meet cute in a supermarket

Emma (Queen of Highbury) decides to grace the Coles with her presence just as the Queen (of England) once went to a wedding. Also Frank gets a haircut and Mr Woodhouse is a child...

Frank is trying his hardest to see Jane (and we only see that because we know the ending)

Frank Churchill arrives! He's an inconvenient surprise (apologies to everyone ever as I'm always early).

Where the hell does Emma get her snobby ideas from?

Rachel mentions My Parents Won't Stop Talking by Emma Hunsinger & Tillie Walden 

We learn more about the future Mrs Elton and their courtship with a segue to Taylor Swift (let me have my special interests)

Gossip! Mr Elton is engaged and we discuss Jane Austen's own brief engagement

We tackle the important questions:

- Does Austen name characters after herself?

- Why is Jane a better heroine than Emma?

- Was Austen secretly gay?

- Is Emma secretly gay?