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Feb 20, 2020 · The period clothing and language are all there in director Autumn de Wilde's big-screen adaptation of Jane Austen's beloved novel about the well-intentioned popular girl/matchmaker Emma Woodhouse.
Aug 30, 1996 · Emma: Directed by Douglas McGrath. With Gwyneth Paltrow, James Cosmo, Greta Scacchi, Alan Cumming. While matchmaking for friends and neighbours, a young 19th Century Englishwoman nearly misses her own chance at love.
Feb 20, 2020 · Emma Woodhouse (Taylor-Joy) is 20 and lives with her doddering, hypochondriac father (Bill Nighy) in a genteel estate named Hartfield, bordering that of Mr. Knightley (Johnny Flynn).
Almost 21, witty, and altogether charming, Emma Woodhouse has never learned to follow anybody’s guidance but her own. She lives with her father in Hartfield, a gorgeous house that’s second only to Donwell Abbey in size and importance. That’s by Highbury standards, of course – in fact, pretty much every social judgment Emma makes has ...
Emma Full Book Summary. Although convinced that she herself will never marry, Emma Woodhouse, a precocious twenty-year-old resident of the village of Highbury, imagines herself to be naturally gifted in conjuring love matches. After self-declared success at matchmaking between her governess and Mr. Weston, a village widower, Emma takes it upon ...
Emma Summary. Rich, beautiful, and privileged Emma Woodhouse fancies herself to be an excellent matchmaker. When her governess marries the well-to-do widower Mr. Weston, a match that Emma views herself to have made, Emma befriends the lower class Harriet Smith and sets out to similarly assist her.
Feb 9, 2020 · “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.” So begins Emma, one of Jane Austen’s most beloved books. But not everyone is carried away by Emma ...
