Emma Reading Order

Jane Austen's Emma (1815) is widely considered her most technically accomplished novel — the story of Emma Woodhouse, 'handsome, clever, and rich,' who meddles in the romantic lives of her neighbors in the village of Highbury and must learn, through a series of comic and painful misapprehensions, to see the world as it actually is. Unlike Austen's other heroines, Emma is not in need of money; her journey is entirely one of moral perception. Austen herself said she was 'going to take a heroine whom no one but myself will much like,' and Emma remains the most debated of her heroines.