Sentence:  "Emily" was preserved and erased, reduced to the sexless cypher "E.", and then came to denote not the shared and ordinary name "Emily" but a new, exotic, self-begotten "<WSD>Emilia</WSD>". No longer masculine Francis but feminine-with-a-difference <WSD>Emilia</WSD>, vaguely Latin or Italian or French but in any case foreign, not domestic; ... 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  (from=Latin), a rare latinized variant of Emily.