- Emma is the story of Miss Emma Woodhouse, a well-to-do young woman in a small English town.

- After her governess, Miss Taylor, marries and becomes Mrs. Weston, Emma is left with her hypochondriac, hyper-concerned father as her sole companion.

- She therefore takes the poor, unconnected, yet gentle Harriet under her wing.

- Emma's love of matchmaking leads her to meddle in Harriet's love life, and to set up some romantic misadventures of her own!

- A humorous, satirical work,

- where the plot is often secondary to the characters themselves. From the garrulous Miss Bates, to the querulous Mr Woodhouse, to the gallant Mr. Knightley and erratic Mr. Churchill,

- a fascinating and highly readable example of Jane Austen's prowess with the English language.—

- was an English novelist whose works of romantic fiction, set among the landed gentry