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Barcode30293102420473
StatusIn Processing
LocationClark County
Call NoF Clif
TitleMiss Bates : Emma revisited : a novel / Catherine Cliff.
AuthorCliff, Catherine, author
CollectionF
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Clark County30293102420473F Clif8/4/2026 In Processing 

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International Standard Book Number 9798897101313 (hardcover)
Personal Name Cliff, Catherine, author
Title Statement Miss Bates : Emma revisited : a novel / Catherine Cliff.
Edition Statement First Pegasus Books cloth edition.
Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice New York, NY : Pegasus Books, 2026.
Physical Description viii, 328 pages ; 24 cm.
Summary, Etc. "Miss Bates, creepy, funny, and heartbreaking, is a daring reimagining of the world of Jane Austen's Emma. But make no mistake, this is no marriage plot; it is a spinster plot. Or maybe, it is the spinster's plot. Henrietta Bates, the iconic bore of Emma, is the opposite of handsome, clever, and rich Emma: she is plain, ill-educated, and impoverished. An unmarried woman of quite a different order from that novel's proudly single heroine, she is an object of scorn and pity, whose survival depends upon the generosity of her neighbors which she barters for with an unrelenting shower of banal and grateful chatter. But what if the woman we see in Emma were actually deliberately assuming a role, donning a mask, as a means of managing an untenable situation? What if there was a world of difference between her inward and outward voice? What would the Woodhouses's Highbury look like from her perspective? Miss Bates by Catherine Cliff imagines answers to these questions as it chronicles Henrietta Bates's unexpected and, at times, violent life, navigating a world with no ready-made opportunities, where the stakes are of the highest order. In a debut that is by turns comedic, tragic, startling, and altogether brilliant, Miss Bates turns Austen's poignant and ridiculous side character into a feminist force who understands innately the life she has been dealt and how to slyly play it to her advantage." -- Provided by publisher.
Subject-Personal Name Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 Characters Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Single women Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Aristocracy (Social class) Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term England Social life and customs 19th century Fiction.
Index Term-Genre/Form Historical fiction.

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