Talk:Emma Brown

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"Completed?

The introduction currently states that Charlotte Brontë's "Emma" was "left incomplete when she died in 1855" and "was completed by Clare Boylan and published as Emma Brown in 2003." Given that the unfinished manuscript was only 20 pages long, and Boylan's text - as the article indicates - "was not regarded as a faithful continuation of the style and voice of Brontë," is it reasonable to state that Boylan "completed" the text? Effectively what she did was write a novel loosely based on an approximation Brontë's style and a mere two chapters of Brontë's manuscript. I'm not exactly sure how to approach the problem, but I suggest the wording needs to be changed to reflect that. At the moment the wording may imply that Boylan pieced together an approximation of the full manuscript from Brontë's extant notes or letters. Boylan couldn't possibly have known what Brontë planned to write, and filling in the story with her own imagination doesn't constitute a "completion." Unfinished creative works by deceased artists are a common phenomenon, and they're not usually up for "completion" by other artists.Sadiemonster (talk) 14:26, 18 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]