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Note on the Text
This text is based on the first edition of ‘1816’ (actually published December 1815), the only one to be prepared in Austen’s lifetime. Typographical errors (such as missing or wrongly set letters and chapter headings) have been silently corrected, but where there is any doubt about a particular word, I have indicated the problem in the notes.
Emma presents few textual difficulties, since no manuscript survives and the second edition did not appear until 1833. I am nevertheless indebted to the work of R. W. Chapman, who isolated most of the problems of the 1816 text in his invaluable edition of the novels. I have followed Chapman’s emendations, however, only where they seem fully justified, and in some places (for example Mrs Elton’s ‘caro sposo’ / ‘cara sposa’ / ‘caro sposa’) the 1816 spellings are retained despite the apparent inconsistency, for reasons given in the notes.
Original punctuation and spelling has been retained throughout. Variations in the spelling of proper names have been ironed out to avoid confusion, and the most common usage has been adopted (for example, in Chapter 16, William Coxe (1816) becomes William Cox, in accordance with subsequent appearances; Randalls continues to appear thus, even though in the third volume of the first edition, it became ‘Randall’s’).
EMMA:
A NOVEL.
IN THREE VOLUMES.
BY THE
AUTHOR OF "PRIDE AND PREJUDICE,"
&c. &c.
VOL. I.
LONDON:
PRINTED FOR JOHN MURRAY.
1816.
TO
HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS
THE PRINCE REGENT,
THIS WORK IS,
BY HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS’S PERMISSION,
MOST RESPECTFULLY
DEDICATED,
BY HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS’S
DUTIFUL
AND OBEDIENT
HUMBLE SERVANT,
THE AUTHOR.1
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