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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." Jane Austen, while writing the ...
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] The novel was first published in December 1815, although the title page is dated 1816.
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 key theme in Jane Austen’s novels, especially Pride and Prejudice.
Cynthia Harrod-Eagles (born 13 August 1948) is a British writer of historical, romance and mystery novels. She normally writes under her own name but also uses the pseudonyms Emma Woodhouse and Elizabeth Bennett. Cynthia was born on 13 August 1948 at Shepherd's Bush, London, England and wrote her first novel in 1972 while still at university.
3/5 There’s much to admire in this series about Jane and her sister Cassandra, who inexplicably burned many of the writer’s letters, but it cannot quite nail the great author’s piercing satire
Emma (stylized as Emma. ) is a 2020 period romantic comedy film directed by Autumn de Wilde , from a screenplay by Eleanor Catton , based on Jane Austen 's 1815 novel of the same name . It stars Anya Taylor-Joy as Miss Emma Woodhouse, a wealthy and elegant young woman living with her father in Regency-era England who amuses herself with ...
Emma. (2020) Adapted from Jane Austen's 1815 novel of the same name , Emma. takes place in England in the 1800s and focuses on self-centered Emma Woodhouse who becomes involves in her friends ...
Romola Garai as Emma Woodhouse: In Austen's opening lines of the novel: "Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her." Emma has no need to marry, being ...