Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, meddles in everyone's matches but her own — until she learns the cost of her cleverness.
Books mentioned in Emma (4)
The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith: “And I know he has read the Vicar of Wakefield.”
The Romance of the Forest by Ann Radcliffe: “He never read the Romance of the Forest, nor The Children of the Abbey.”
The Children of the Abbey by Regina Maria Roche: “He never read the Romance of the Forest, nor The Children of the Abbey.”
Elegant Extracts by Vicesimus Knox: “sometimes of an evening, before we went to cards, he would read something aloud out of the Elegant Extracts, very entertaining.”
Books that mention Emma (9)
The Virginian by Owen Wister: “he had brought back to her two novels, EMMA and PRIDE AND PREJUDICE.”
Babel Tower by A. S. Byatt: “Essay topic Frederica sets: 'Show the different methods by which Jane Austen invites and discourages the reader's sympathy for Emma Woodhouse and/or Fanny Price.'”
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger: “Well, just now I was lying in bed with you reading Emma. You were thirty-three.”
A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth: “‘What’ll you read on the way?’ ‘Emma.’ ‘Not like our saloons, is it?’”
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke: “I put it here, between d'Israeli's Flim-Flams and Miss Austen's Emma.”
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara: “He found a copy of Emma, which he had been reading in class at the college before he ran away”
The Common Reader: Second Series by Virginia Woolf: “There they hang in the mind the shapes of the books we have read solidified by the judgments we have passed on them--Robinson Crusoe, Emma, The Return of the Native.”
The Accidental by Ali Smith: “"The whole history dwindled soon into a matter of little importance but to Emma and her nephews..." Jane Austen (epigraph)”
Normal People by Sally Rooney: “One night the library started closing just as he reached the passage in Emma when it seems like Mr Knightley is going to marry Harriet, and he had to close the book and walk home in a state of strange emotional agitation.”