Miss Bates by Catherine Cliff kids-gift funny and heartbreaking in equal

funny and heartbreaking in equal measure

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its impact is anything but small

Miss Bates by Catherine Cliff kids-gift funny and heartbreaking in equalA daring re imagining of an Austen classic from the unflinching viewpoint of the misunderstood Miss Bates. Henrietta Bates, the iconic bore of Austen's 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