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Emma

Emma

Author(s): Jane Austen

Location(s): Surrey

Genre(s): Historical, Romance

Era(s): Early 1800s

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Quick-witted, beautiful, headstrong and rich, Emma Woodhouse is inordinately fond of match-making select inhabitants of the village of Highbury, yet aloof and oblivious as to the question of whom she herself might marry. This paradox multiplies the intrigues and sparkling ironies of Jane Austen’s masterpiece, her comedy of a sentimental education through which Emma discovers a capacity for love and marriage

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In this book we do visit Box Hill in Surrey – but if you try to chart the fictional Highbury (and not, it’s not the London suburb, even then) – supposedly 15 miles from...

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