Emma

Jane Austen · 1815 CE · Novel · English · Romantic

Handsome, clever and rich, Emma Woodhouse rules a quiet Surrey village, means never to marry, and arranges other people's marriages instead. Her project of improving a friendless girl of uncertain birth goes wrong in ways she is the last person to understand. A clever matchmaker blind to her own heart; comedy built from self-deception corrected.

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• influenced by ↑ Evelina
  Frances Burney · 1778 CE · Novel
• ↓ Middlemarch
  George Eliot · 1872 CE · Novel — influenced by this

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