Emma

It is a novel about youthful hubris and the perils of abrupt romance in a fictional village of Highbury and the surrounding estates of Hartfield, Randalls and Donwell Abbey. It involved the relationship among individuals therein of three or four families . Emma Woodhouse took the credit as a matchmaker. The novel has Emma Woodhouse, George Knightley, France Churchill, Jane Fairfax, Harrict Smith, Robert Martin, Philip Elton Auguster Elton, Mr and Mrs Weston, Miss Bates, Henry Woodhouse, Isabella Knightley [nee Woodhouse and John Knightley] as the principal characters. It was written after the title 'Pride and Prejudice' and submitted to the London publisher John Murray II [Fall of 1815]. The latter offered her £ 450, which she rejected for the manuscript plus the copyrights of 'Mansfield Park', and 'Sense and Sensibility'. She published 2,000 copies of her novel at own expense, retained the copyright and paid him the commission at 10 percent.