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She sees every heart but her own.
Emma Woodhouse
A clever young woman whose confidence lets her rearrange other people’s lives before she understands them.
Hartfield
A warm, elegant house where being cared for quietly shades into getting your own way.
Blessed with every advantage, Emma's early power hints at unseen flaws to come.
Read →Emma's Easy Blessings
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.
She was the youngest of the two daughters of a most affectionate, indulgent father; and had, in consequence of her sister’s marriage, been mistress of his house from a very early period. Her mother had died too long ago for her to have more than an indistinct remembrance of her caresses; and her place had been supplied by an excellent woman as governess, who had fallen little short of a mother in affection.
Emma has everything the world counts as good fortune, and Austen lists it out like an inventory before quietly slipping in the catch. To seem to unite the best blessings, and to have lived with little to distress her, is not the same as being wise or tested. Running her father's house since her sister married has given Emma real authority young, but it has also meant no one above her to check her. The governess loved her like a mother, which sounds tender until you notice a mother's correction is exactly what is missing.
Emma and Harriet
Emma Woodhouse has never had her judgment seriously questioned - and she has just decided to take a pretty, pliant girl of uncertain parentage and improve her.
Robert Martin’s proposal letter
A farmer's honest proposal that Emma turns into a question of rank.
Mr. Knightley
The neighbor honest enough to correct Emma when everyone else protects her comfort.
Emma
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