Activité sur The Watsons

1805 • livre de Jane Austen

Résumé : Left impoverished upon the death of her aunt, Emma Watson has no option but to be reunited with her estranged father and siblings. Initially delighted with her new life—including the fashionable society balls to which she now has access—Emma soon realizes that her family harbors many ill feelings, not least those springing from the sisters' hopes—and disappointments—in snaring a husband. So when the eligible and suitably rich Tom Musgrove begins to transfer his affections from her sister Margaret to Emma, the result can only be further sibling rivalry and unrest. [The Watsons is an unfinished novel by Jane Austen. It has only 5 chapters, and was started around 1803 and put aside, most likely after her father's death in 1805.]