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Emma—A Novel More than Matchmaking Emma was completed in 1815 by Jane Austen, who first gave the novel its modern character through the treatment of everyday life. The copy I read was published by Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press in Beijing, 2006. For those who are woefully bored with heavy ornate words, those who are filled with nausea at the pungent sarcasm or those who take keen interest in feminine writing styles or matchmaking, those who want to have a peep at the English country life in the 19thcentury, the novel Emma is qualified to serve as the best choice. In the novel, the vivid depiction of contemporary English country life and repetitious matchmaking attempts, the fully embodiment of exquisite observation, subtle irony, comic tone and flashing wit enable Emma to become one of Jane Austen’s most brilliant works and the expression of an artist at the height of her powers, which is destined to instill some fresh air into the literature. Moreover, such writing skills endow Miss Emma with tremendous charm and shape Emma to become a name with a large following, although Austen herself described Emma as a heroine whom no one but myself will much like. From the view of setting, the novel is rooted in middle-class provincial life of England in the 19thcentury. Minor landed gentry, country clergymen and their families resurface in the book with easy-to-understand language that seems phonographic. There is no denying that the setting of the novel is closely related to the author’s personal experience. Austen was active in social life and enjoys social events. Moreover, she was well connected with the middling-rich landed gentry which set the tone for the common life she portrayed in the novel with her exquisite observation. The character is well shaped in the novel. With a wide range view of the work, the whole book is mainly concerned with a country lady living in Regency England that is Miss. Emma Woodhouse and the book even be named after her. Diffe