John Knightley is introduced and begins to fall in love. Her dresses are more elegant her accomplishments far superior to anything Highbury has ever seen. She is intriguing and romantic as only a beautiful young Frenchwoman can be. It is now 1815, and Eliza is 20 years old. Her parents, the Comte and Comtesse d'Arblay, fled the French Revolution in 1795. So when a fascinating young woman enters Highbury society, Emma sees at last a golden opportunity. John Knightley - her brother-in-law, poor widowed John - is in need of a wife and stepmother to his numerous family. But this time Emma is playing for dangerously high stakes. To amuse herself, Emma decides to take up matchmaking again, whether her husband will have it or no. Mr Knightley is affectionate but he is in reality an old friend, who has, in his own words, 'lectured and blamed' Emma, sixteen years younger than he, all her life. There may be harmony between them but Emma is frankly bored. This is the story of Emma two years after she has married Mr Knightley. "The sequel to Jane Austen's best-loved novel, Emma, by the author of the international best-seller 'Pemberley'. In good condition with the original dust wrapper which reads: This is a SEQUEL to Jane Austen's Emma in an early work of classic progression. Published in 1996 by Fourth Estate, London. Here is a first edition, first impression copy of Emma in Love by Emma Tennant.
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