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After returning home to Hartfield, Emma forges ahead with her new interest against the advice of her friend Mr. Knightley, whose brother is married to Emma's elder sister, Isabella. She attempts to match her new friend, Harriet Smith, to Mr. Elton, the local vicar. Emma persuades Harriet to refuse a marriage proposal from Robert Martin, a ...
Mr. Knightley, half-serious, half-mocking, considers that the sixteen years spent at Hartfield as a governess has prepared Miss Taylor, accustomed to doing Emma's bidding, for “the very material matrimonial point of submitting your own will, and doing as you were bid,” [108] but, given her husband's easygoing nature, she will probably have ...
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]
She is rescued by Mr Knightley, who asks her to dance. Emma and Mr Knightley also dance together, awakening romantic feelings between them. Though Emma leaves before Mr Knightley can speak to her, he runs to her home only for their meeting to be interrupted by Frank, who has rescued Harriet after she is set upon by traveller children. Harriet ...
Jane Austen’s literary works have inspired many successful film and television adaptations, including the 2005 iteration of Pride & Prejudice. Pride & Prejudice closely follows Austen’s 1818 ...
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."
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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.