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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 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 entered into three marriages: Jane Fairfax and Frank Churchill, Emma Woodhouse and Mr Knightley, Harriet Smith and Robert Martin (Chris Hammond, 1898). Marriage is a major theme in the novels of Jane Austen, especially Pride and Prejudice.
Mr Henry Woodhouse is a central character in Jane Austen's 1815 novel Emma and the father of the protagonist, Emma Woodhouse.He is a wealthy member of the English landed gentry who owns a large country estate.
George Knightley is a principal character depicted by Jane Austen in her novel Emma, published in 1815. He is a landowner and gentleman farmer, though "having little spare money". [1] A lifetime friend of Emma's, though nearly seventeen years older than she, he is one of the only characters willing to correct her when he believes her to be ...
Emma, an 1815 novel by Jane Austen; Emma Brown, a fragment of a novel by Charlotte Brontë, completed by Clare Boylan in 2003; Emma, a 1955 novel by F. W. Kenyon; Emma: A Modern Retelling, a 2015 novel by Alexander McCall Smith; Emma, a 2002 manga by Kaoru Mori and the adapted Japanese animated series
Miss Bates has as her main characteristic an unending flow of trivial speech, freely associating from one unimportant event to another – something which was to make her an immediate comic success among Austen's first readership. [5] Many of the clues to the book's intrigue are in fact artfully concealed and revealed within her verbose talk. [6]
Emma is a 1996 British-American period comedy film based on the 1815 novel of the same name by Jane Austen.Written and directed by Douglas McGrath, and produced by Patrick Cassavetti and Steven Haft, the film stars Gwyneth Paltrow, Alan Cumming, Toni Collette, Ewan McGregor, and Jeremy Northam.