Description A heroine whom no-one but myself will much like, the author famously proclaimed.
In fact, in any league of likeability Miss Woodhouse is streets ahead of Miss Fanny - the ostentatiously meek heroine of Mansfield Park.
Meek Emma is not.
Indeed it is her sense of absolute sovereignty over her little world of Highbury - her right, as she presumes, to dispose of the marriage choices of those in her circle - which brings her to grief.
And that grief, by the familiar co.