Jane Austen Sequels

Chapter 1:

...walked up to Hartfield to say that all were well in Brunswick Square.

Chapter 2:

Mr. Weston... had satisfied an active, cheerful mind and social temper by entering into the militia of his county, then embodied... {Alternate militia site}

He had been at the pains of consulting Mr. Perry, the apothecary, on the subject...

Chapter 3:

Mrs. Bates... was a very old lady, almost past every thing but tea and quadrille.

...she had an ample house and garden, gave the children plenty of wholesome food, let them run about a great deal in the summer, and in winter dressed their chilblains with her own hands.

Harriet Smith was the natural daughter of somebody... and somebody had lately raised her from the condition of scholar to that of parlour-boarder. {Link opens directly into a PDF document; scroll down to 'Emma, Harriet Martin, and Parlour Boarders' on page 2 — excerpt only.}

Chapter 4:

...of their having eight cows, two of them Alderneys, and one a little Welch cow, a very pretty little Welch cow indeed...

...he would read something aloud out of the Elegant Extracts, very entertaining. And I know he has read the Vicar of Wakefield. He never read The Romance of the Forest, nor The Children of the Abbey...

Chapter 8:

Mr. Elton was actually on his road to London, and not meaning to return till the morrow, though it was the whist-club night... {more on whist}

Chapter 9:

And it always ended in 'Kitty, a fair but frozen maid'... {see: The charades & riddles in Emma, and their answers, and an alternate interpretation of Mr. Elton's charade: Jane Austen’s “Tribute” to the Prince Regent: A Gentleman Riddled with Difficulty}

'The course of true love never did run smooth—A Hartfield edition of Shakespeare would have a long note on that passage.' {The passage quoted is from A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act I, Scene I, Lysander to Hermia}

'That Mr. Elton should really be in love with me,—me, of all people, who did not know him, to speak to him, at Michaelmas!

Chapter 10:

'...if she does but send her aunt the pattern of a stomacher...'

...she immediately stopped, under pretence of having some alteration to make in the lacing of her half-boot...

...he was only giving his fair companion an account of the yesterday's party at his friend Cole's, and that she was come in herself for the Stilton cheese, the North Wiltshire...

Chapter 11:

...all the holidays of this autumn had been given to sea-bathing for the children...

...and ever since his particular kindness last September twelvemonth in writing that note, at twelve o'clock at night, on purpose to assure me that there was no scarlet fever at Cobham...

'...it was an exceeding good, pretty letter, and gave Mr. and Mrs. Weston a great deal of pleasure. I remember it was written from Weymouth...' {Pictures of Weymouth}

Chapter 12:

As a magistrate, he had generally some point of law to consult John about, or, at least, some curious anecdote to give; and as a farmer, as keeping in hand the home-farm at Donwell...

'My dear Emma, suppose we all have a little gruel.'

'It was an awkward business, my dear, your spending the autumn at South End...'

'The neighbourhood of Brunswick Square is very different from almost all the rest...' {On the map, Brunswick Square is to the left of Corams Fields.}

'You should have gone to Cromer, my dear, if you went anywhere.'

Chapter 13:

'The contrivances of modern days indeed have rendered a gentleman's carriage perfectly complete.'

Chapter 17:

...he was proposing to leave Highbury the following morning in his way to Bath...{Alternate site on Bath}

VOLUME II

Chapter 1:

...what a favourite he was wherever he went, and how full the Master of the Ceremonies' ball had been...

'...I knew it could not be far off, and here it is, only just under my housewife...'

...in general she fills the whole paper and crosses half.

'...very strange to be in different kingdoms, I was going to say, but however different countries...'

Ever since the service he rendered Jane at Weymouth, when they were out in that party on the water...

...had been indebted to him for such attentions, during a severe camp-fever, as he believed had saved his life... {Link opens directly into a PDF document}

The plan was that she should be brought up for educating others... {The link discusses governesses of the Victorian era, but the description of duties and status is accurate for the earlier period as well}

...they must forbid her engaging in duties, which... seemed, under the most favourable circumstances, to require something more than human perfection of body and mind to be discharged with tolerable comfort.

Chapter 3:

'Mr. Elton going to be married!'

'We may well say that 'our lot is cast in a goodly heritage'.' {Miss Bates seems to be paraphrasing Psalm 16:6—'The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; yea, I have a goodly heritage.'}

'He fancied bathing might be good for it—the warm bath...'

Ford's was the principal woollen-draper, linen-draper, and haberdasher's shop united...

Chapter 4:

...Bristol was her home, the very heart of Bristol...

...a trunk, directed to The Rev. Philip Elton, White-Hart, Bath...

Chapter 5:

...at the end of the broad, neat gravel walk, which led between espalier apple-trees...

...he is at Oxford today, and he comes for a whole fortnight...

When she looked at the hedges, she thought the elder at least must soon be coming out...

Chapter 6:

...on recollecting that an old woman who had nursed him was still living, walked in quest of her cottage from one end of the street to the other... {This passage, from the Memoir of Jane Austen by James Edward Austen-Leigh, explains that Jane Austen was herself 'put out to be nursed' as an infant.}

...the Crown Inn, an inconsiderable house, though the principal one of the sort, where a couple of pair of post-horses were kept...

...the sleek, well-tied parcels of 'Men's Beavers' and 'York Tan' were bringing down and displaying on the counter... {'York Tan' was a popular color for gloves}

Chapter 7:

A sudden freak seemed to have seized him at breakfast, and he had sent for a chaise and set off... {See also Transports of Delight:How Jane Austen's Characters Got Around}

... Mr. Cole is very bilious.

'I am not afraid of your not being exceedingly comfortable with Mrs. Goddard. She loves piquet, you know...'

Chapter 8:

Mrs. Cole... had been struck by the sight of a pianoforte... not a grand, but a large-sized square pianoforte...

...this pianoforte had arrived from Broadwood's the day before...

...much to ask and to say as to tone, touch, and pedal...

Mrs. Weston, capital in her country-dances, was seated, and beginning an irresistible waltz... {See Capering & Kickery for a discussion on the authenticity of regency dancing in film adaptations.}

Chapter 10:

'Here is something quite new to me. Do you know it?— Cramer.— And here are a new set of Irish melodies...'

'She is playing Robin Adair at this moment — his favourite...' {Audio clip is from Jane Hammett's Home, a Healing Journey. Click here for Robin Adair lyrics & sheet music.}

'I am going to Kingston. Can I do any thing for you?'

Chapter 11:

It may be possible to do without dancing entirely.

Chapter 14:

'Surry is the garden of England.'
'Yes; but we must not rest our claims on that distinction. Many counties, I believe, are called the garden of England, as well as Surry.' {Apparently this contest has been going on for centuries!}

We explored to King's-Weston twice last summer, in that way, most delightfully, just after their first having the barouche-landau. {See also Transports of Delight:How Jane Austen's Characters Got Around}

A little upstart, vulgar being, with her Mr. E., and her caro sposo... {caro sposo=dear husband, beloved spouse}

Chapter 15:

...those charming lines of the poet,
'Full many a flower is born to blush unseen,
'And waste its fragrance on the desert air.'
{Lines 55-56; Mrs. Elton slightly misquotes the passage}

Chapter 16:

She was a little shocked at the want of two drawing rooms, at the poor attempt at rout-cakes, and there being no ice in the Highbury card-parties.

'The post-office is a wonderful establishment!' said she.

'...if I had my writing-desk, I am sure I could produce a specimen.'

Chapter 17:

'...if you mean a fling at the slave-trade, I assure you Mr. Suckling was always rather a friend to the abolition.'

Chapter 18:

'...Enscombe is in Yorkshire?' {Photos of Yorkshire}

'...he was sure at this rate it would be May before Hymen's saffron robe would be put on for us... ' {Reference is to Milton's L'Allegro, l. 125-126}

'...how they got their fortune nobody knows. They came from Birmingham...'

'...do not spoil them, and do not physic them.' {Mr. John Knightley probably refers to meaning 3}

VOLUME III

Chapter 1:

They were going to remove immediately to Richmond.

Chapter 2:

'This is meeting quite in fairy-land!'

'Mrs. Weston begs you to put on your tippet...'

'...there was a delicate fricassee of sweetbread...'

Chapter 3:

...they had suddenly perceived at a small distance before them, on a broader patch of greensward by the side, a party of gipsies...

Chapter 4:

Within abundance of silver paper was a pretty little Tunbridge-ware box, which Harriet opened...

...excepting the cotton, Emma saw only a small piece of court-plaister... {See also sticking plaster.}

...he wanted to make a memorandum in his pocket-book; it was about spruce-beer. {Scroll down to recipe at bottom of page 'For brewing Spruce Beer'}

Chapter 5:

...unless it were like Cowper and his fire at twilight, 'Myself creating what I saw,'...

'...of course it must have been a dream. I am a great dreamer...'

...the large modern circular table which Emma had introduced at Hartfield... instead of the small-sized Pembroke... {Another Pembroke}

Mr. Knightley thought he saw another collection of letters anxiously pushed towards her, and resolutely swept away by her unexamined... {According to the Memoir of Jane Austen, by James Edward Austen-Leigh, the letters placed by Frank Churchill before Jane Fairfax, which she swept away unread, contained the word ‘pardon.’}

Chapter 6:

Why should not they explore to Box Hill though the Sucklings did not come? It was settled that they should go to Box Hill...

'I wish we had a donkey. The thing would be for us all to come on donkeys...'

Under a bright mid-day sun, at almost Midsummer...

'...hautboy infinitely superior... Chili preferred - white wood finest flavour of all...'

...and they had only accomplished some views of St. Mark's Place, Venice, when Frank Churchill entered the room.

Chapter 7:

'Let my accents swell to Mickleham on one side, and Dorking on the other.' {map, Mickleham - Dorking - Box Hill}

'I had an acrostic once sent to me upon my own name...'

'That's one of the ladies in the Irish car party...'

Chapter 8:

'...he is very well to do himself, you know, being head man at the Crown, ostler, and every thing of that sort...'

...Tom had been sent off immediately for the Crown chaise, and the ostler had stood out and seen it pass by, the boy going a good pace...

Chapter 9:

Goldsmith tells us, that when lovely woman stoops to folly, she has nothing to do but to die...

...their first removal, on the departure of the funeral for Yorkshire, was to be to the house of a very old friend in Windsor...

...some arrowroot of very superior quality was speedily despatched...

Chapter 10:

'Of such, one may almost say, that 'the world is not their's, nor the world's law.'' {Emma re-works a quote from Romeo and Juliet – Act 5, Scene 1: 'The world is not thy friend, nor the world's law...'}

Chapter 14:

'Miss W. calls me the child of good fortune.' {NOTE: 'The Devil with the Three Golden Hairs' was published in Children' and Household Tales, by the brothers Grimm, in 1812, so it seems to me to be a likely source for this phrase; in the linked version, it's 'luck-child'.}

Chapter 16:

Harriet really wished, and had wished some time, to consult a dentist.

...she saw her with a sort of anxious parade of mystery fold up a letter which she had apparently been reading aloud to Miss Fairfax, and return it into the purple and gold reticule by her side...

'...I forget the poem at this moment: 'For when a lady's in the case, You know all other things give place.' ' {Lines 41-42}

Chapter 17:

'She has had the advantage, you know, of practising on me,' she continued - 'like La Baronne d'Almane on La Comtesse d'Ostalis, in Madame de Genlis' Adelaide and Theodore...'

'...in the building in which N. takes M. for better, for worse.'

Chapter 18:

They were going to take the two eldest boys to Astley's.