Emma (novel)
![Title page of the first edition, 1816](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f2/EmmaTitlePage.jpg)
Before she began the novel, Austen wrote, "I am going to take a heroine whom no one but myself will much like." In the first sentence, she introduces the title character as "Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and a happy disposition... had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her." Emma is spoiled, headstrong, and self-satisfied; she greatly overestimates her own matchmaking abilities; she is blind to the dangers of meddling in other people's lives; and her imagination and perceptions often lead her astray.
''Emma'', written after Austen's move to Chawton, was her last novel to be published during her lifetime, while ''Persuasion'', the last complete novel Austen wrote, was published posthumously.
The novel has been adapted for a number of films, television programmes and stage plays. Provided by Wikipedia
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