Abstract
The events of Emma are framed by two marriages. Beneath thisofficial chronology, though, the story of Emma's maturation is underpinned by a framework of carefully counterpointed progressions away from, and towards, motherhood, obeying the narrative and emotional logic of the fairytale, with itstypical move from the loss of the mother, and its impact on the daughter's life, towards the representation of that daughter herself as about to embark on the roleof maternity. Cyclical growth and nurture are also highlighted by the stress on an economy of consumption and food-gifts, with social attitudes and financial status clarified and demarcated by food in ways which counterpoint the teleologically-oriented linearity of the novel's narrative progression; they also reveal an ostensibly pastoral economy of food gifts as a mystification of the realities of class and money underlying it.
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