When I traveled from Singapore to Siem Reap last year, Elizabeth Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy kept me company. They were the best companions during a holiday filled with long waits and solo flights. (especially when the plane on route to Siem Reap was grounded at Phnom Penh due to zero visibility.)
(at Merlion Park with my copy of Pride and Prejudice and a pack of oatmeal cookies)
Since then I’ve vowed to read the other five novels of Jane Austen before the year ends. Sadly, I have failed. (Though, I’ve caught most of them on film.)
So here I am now, issuing a challenge unto myself to read the six novels penned by Jane Austen in the span of six months. May God help me in this endeavor.
For January, I am going to start with ‘Emma.’ Written between January 1814 and March 1815, Emma was commisioned by the distinguished house of John Murray. It was published in December 1815 and was dedicated to the Prince Regent, at the request of the Carlton House Librarian, the Revd James Stanier Clarke.
Source: John Sutherland and Deirdre Le Faye; “So you think you know Jane Austen?’.
