1815Emma
Jane Austen
Clever, rich and idle, Emma Woodhouse amuses herself matchmaking among the little society of her Surrey village, blundering through other people's hearts and her own until she learns what she has felt all along. Austen keeps the whole comedy within a few miles of real countryside: the family house at Hartfield and the village of Highbury, Mr Knightley's Donwell Abbey, and the outing to Box Hill where Emma's thoughtlessness brings her up short.
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