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Emma is a novel written by English author Jane Austen. It is set in the fictional country village of Highbury and the surrounding estates of Hartfield, Randalls and Donwell Abbey, and involves the relationships among people from a small number of families. [ 2 ]
Emma sold well, but the new edition of Mansfield Park did poorly, and this failure offset most of the income from Emma. These were the last of Austen's novels to be published during her lifetime. [116] While Murray prepared Emma for publication, Austen began The Elliots, later published as Persuasion. She completed her first draft in July 1816.
This is a list of pen names used by notable authors of written work. A pen name or nom de plume is a pseudonym adopted by an author.A pen name may be used to make the author' name more distinctive, to disguise the author's gender, to distance the author from their other works, to protect the author from retribution for their writings, to combine more than one author into a single author, or ...
Emma Centennia Hulbert (1900–1934) (divorced) ... (who was a recurring character in a series of eleven books), he also wrote the Pellucidar series, ...
He wrote a new Titanic miniseries that was shown on ITV1 in March–April 2012. [18] He unsuccessfully auditioned for the role of Master of Lake-town in the 2012–2014 The Hobbit series. [ 14 ] In 2013 he wrote the screenplay for the romance drama Romeo & Juliet starring Hailee Steinfeld , Damian Lewis , and Paul Giamatti , which was adapted ...
Emma Lazarus (July 22, 1849 – November 19, 1887) was an American author of poetry, prose, and translations, as well as an activist for Jewish and Georgist causes. She is remembered for writing the sonnet " The New Colossus ", which was inspired by the Statue of Liberty , in 1883. [ 1 ]
Emma Woodhouse is the 21-year-old titular protagonist of Jane Austen's 1815 novel Emma.She is described in the novel's opening sentence as "handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and a happy disposition... and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her."
Emma Goldman (June 27, 1869 – May 14, 1940) was a Lithuanian-born anarchist revolutionary, political activist, and writer. She played a pivotal role in the development of anarchist political philosophy in North America and Europe in the first half of the 20th century.