I always find it depressing that Jane Austen felt Mansfield Park was her best book, and Fanny Price her best heroine.

It throws everything I think about Austen into chaos! Fanny was such a drip.

Emma is very clever in that the heroine is so unlikeable and yet entertaining. The movie with Gwyneth Paltrow actually conveys this beautifully, though I don't think they intended to. :) It has some great casting, I have to say.