Another re-read. I think I like this book better the more often I read it. There are always more things to be discovered, and my opinion of the characters also tends to change with every new read-through. This time, for example, I was more alert to the terrible way that Frank Churchill treats almost everybody in Highbury, but especially Jane Fairfax and Emma Woodhouse. To be shamelessly flirting with one while secretly engaged to the other is not fair to either of them, and could easily have caused real harm. It was only through luck that it didn't cause anything but emotional distress on the part of Jane. And that's bad enough already, the last person who should be hurting Jane is her fiancé.

2024 reread: Still so, so excellent.