Emma
(Jane Austen)
Emma is one of Jane Austin?s best-loved novels. The heroine Emma Woodhouse lives alone with her father after her companion marries. She flatters herself that she has engineered the happy union and looks for further people whose lives she can organise.Her brother-in-law John Knightley owns a grand estate nearby. He has known Emma since she was a young girl and is critical of her inclination to interfere with other people?s lives. Nevertheless Emma takes under her wing a pretty village girl called Harriet Smith. She persuades Harriet to turn down the proposal of a worthy young farmer and to set her sights on the curate.Everything goes wrong. The curate, Mr Elton, misinterprets Emma?s encouragement and thinks that he has won her heart. He therefore proposes to Emma and is deeply offended when he is turned down. Emma, not only fails to engineer a marriage for Harriet she also fails to understand relationships that are happening all around her. She does not see that two newcomers to the village, Jane Fairfax and Frank Churchill, are secretly in love and engaged to be married. Instead she thinks that Frank is interested in her. She thinks that John Knightly is taking a romantic interest in Harriet when he is just feeling sorry for the girl. As well as the tangled skein of romantic relationships there are some excellent comic characters ? The Rev Elton?s new wife is a vulgar woman and totally lacking in tact; Jane Fairfax?s aunt is a talkative, foolish old woman. In the end all comes to a happy resolution. Harriet marries her farmer, Jane and Frank are able to reveal their love and Emma discovers that she is in love with John Knightly and, wonder of wonders, he has fallen in love with her.
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