Emma Woodhouse is the lovely, lively, willful, and fallible heroine of Jane Austen’s fourth published novel. Confident that she knows best, Emma schemes to find a suitable husband for her pliant friend Harriet, only to discover that she...
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Emma [Penguin Classics - Reissued with new Chronology, updated Further Reading and revised Notes 2003- Edited with an Introduction and Notes by FIONA STAFFORD]
EMMA JANE AUSTEN was born on 16 December 1775 at Steventon, near Basingstoke, the seventh child of the rector of the parish. She lived with her family at Steventon until they moved to Bath when her father retired in 1801. After his death in 1805,...
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