How Jane Austen Blew a Hole Through the Romance Genre She Created Catherine Cliff on Austen‘s Third Model of Spinsterhood: Being a Self-Made Woman The most dramatic moment in Jane Austen’s Emma, and, arguably, in her whole body of work, has nothing to do with romance. After all, Emma Woodhouse’s reaction to George Knightley’s proposal is a bit of a place holder. The scene in the gardens outside Ha...