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The Matchmaker: An Amish Retelling of Jane Austen's Emma (2015) by Sarah Price [98] Emma Ever After, a 2018 modern retelling of Emma by Brigid Coady. In this version, Emma is a PR manager for celebrities and George "Gee" Knightley is the former member of a boy band. [99] The Code for Love and Heartbreak (2020) by Jillian Cantor [100]
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.
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, 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
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 ...
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.
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 .
In Emma, for example, the first time the town sees Mr. Elton's wife is at church. (Chris Hammond, 1898) Austen's style was heavily influenced by the language of the King James Version of the Bible and, especially, by the Book of Common Prayer, both of which Austen heard spoken every week all of her life as a part of Anglican services. [83]