Jane has indeed come a long way. In Death of a Fop. my first book about her, she learned to overcome being an abused wife, and to find herself, the Jane of 'Emma' was in the thrall of a really nasty piece of work who enjoyed humiliating her in public, brainwashed into believing that he was the only man she was likely to manage to attract. I wrote Death of a Fop because he was nauseatingly familiar, exactly like my abusive grandfather, who was also 'charming' to outsiders while things were going his way. Mr Knightley had his number! this is book 7, and Jane has had the chance to grow.