num_pages: 604
description: Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her. She was the youngest of the two daughters of a most affectionate, indulgent father; and had, in consequence of her sister's marriage, been mistress of his house from a very early period. Her mother had died too long ago for her to have more than an indistinct rememb- rance of her caresses; and her place had been supplied by an excellent woman as governess, who had fallen little short of a mother in affection. Sixteen years had Miss Taylor been in Mr. Woodhouse's family, less as a governess than a friend, very fond of both daughters, but particularly of Emma. Between them it was more the intimacy of sisters. Even before Miss Taylor had ceased to hold the nominal office of governess, the mildness of her temper had hardly allowed her to impose any restraint; and the shadow of authority being now long passed away, they had been living together as friend and friend very mutually attached, and Emma doing just what she liked; highly esteeming Miss Taylor's judgment, but directed chiefly by her own.
language: English
title: Emma
titlecomplete: Emma
characters: Emma Woodhouse, Mr. Weston, Miss Bates, John Knightley, Mr. George Knightley, Mr. Elton, Mrs. Elton, Robert Martin, Harriet Smith, Mr. Woodhouse, Mrs. Isabella Knightley, Frank Churchill, Jane Fairfax, Mrs. Anne Weston
genres: Classics, Historical, Novels, Classic Literature, Romance, Historical Fiction, Literature, Audiobook, 19th Century, Fiction
ratings_count: 848591
places: United Kingdom, Surrey, England, England
publisher: 1st World Library - Literary Society