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The Penguin
English Library
JANE AUSTEN
EMMA
EDITED BY RONALD BLYTHE
In planning Emma, which appeared in 1816, Jane
Aysten wrote:'I am going to take a heroine whom no
one but myself will much Ilike.
Yet, despite her manifest faults - her officiousness
and her capacity for deluding herself - most readers
will agree in liking Emma Woodhouse very much
indeed. More complex and fully rounded than almost
any of Jane Austen's other characters, she domi-
nates the novel as she believed herself to dominate
her little world of Highbury. Her progress, through
the mismanagement of other people's affairs to the
crisis and resolution of her own, is a whole comedy
of self-deceit and self-discovery.
The cover shows a detail from a portrait of Marcia
Fox by Sir William Beechey, reproduced by courtesy
of Colonel Lane Fox of Bramham Park, Boston Spa