![]() There are no tears mentioned on the first page of The Children of the Abbey, but there’s one-a single “tear of unutterable joy”-on the second page, and it’s quickly followed by a description of the heroine, Amanda, “smiling through her tears.” In the second chapter, “a trickling tear stole down lovely cheek, which, tinged as it was with the flush of agitation, looked now like a half-blown rose moistened with the dews of early morning.” And there are many more. Emily laughs while she’s reading the novel, because “The heroine fainted in every chapter and cried quarts if anyone looked at her.” It’s the only novel Emily’s Aunt Ruth owns-and Aunt Ruth is shocked that Emily finds it funny, as she thinks it “a very sad volume” (Chapter 16). Martin is going to read it because she’s recommended it. ![]() ![]() Montgomery’s Emily Climbs (1925), one of the novels Emily Starr reads is The Children of the Abbey (1796), by Regina Maria Roche, which is also mentioned in Jane Austen’s Emma, when Harriet Smith tells Emma that Mr. ![]()
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