Reviews for Memoirs of Emma Courtney (Literary Texts Series)

The average rating for Memoirs of Emma Courtney (Literary Texts Series) based on 2 reviews is 2.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2010-02-02 00:00:00 Gary Hill I read this book as part of a class called "Regency Women Writers" Although there is much to mock about this book (especially the last 50 pages or so, which pretty much devolve into sentimental melodrama) I was actually pleasantly surprised by this book. I found Hays' writing style much more engaging than that of Wollstonecraft, whilst she manages to touch on many of the same fascinating issues as her more-celebrated counterpart. This is an extraordinary book, in many ways, blending as it does the autobiographical, the epistolary (Hays drew on actual letters she herself had written), and fiction: and I thought fiddly metafiction was invented in the 20th Century! Essentially a bildungsroman, the novel charts the development of the eponymous Emma, dwelling upon her quest for education, useful employment and love in a society which is unwilling to allow her the same freedom as a man to create her own happiness.

Review # 2 was written on 2013-02-07 00:00:00 Rusty Shackleford The plot doesn't progress at all throughout the middle 100 pages, and then ten million things happen right at the end.