NovelRegency · 1815Study guide · no full textGentle

Emma

Austen's only novel named for its heroine, and the only one where the reader is allowed to be wrong alongside her. Every misreading Emma makes, you make first.

Love Class Identity Marriage

Study guide

This work is still in copyright, so there is no full text on the page. What you get instead: the context, the cast, the ideas and the themes — enough to read it well, and to know exactly what to watch for in the first thirty pages.

“I am going to take a heroine whom no one but myself will much like.”

The cast, in the Character Atlas →Literary devices →Where it sits in time →

Go deeper

Identity — how other works handle it →Class — how other works handle it →Love — how other works handle it →

Now read the first page with all of this in mind.

The notes here are the map; the book is the journey.

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