Written by the renowned Jane Austen, Emma provides insight into the ideologies and context of Eighteenth-Century England. Set in "Highbury, the large and populous village almost amounting to a town" (Page 9), the novel opens up a bizarre historical world of women, wealth, weddings and way of life. Her consistently sophisticated language establishes complex characters, themes and settings, these in turn mirroring the social context of the time.

Jane Austen's character Emma Woodhouse significantly reflects the society in which she lives. She is a picture of success and accomplishment - personifying the goal of the women and the desires of the men. Of a high social class, she is "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." (Page 7) Occupied...