Miss Bates

A 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 depend...