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<Text id=AusEmma> <Author>Austen, Jane</Author> <Title>Emma</Title> <Edition>The Novels of Jane Austen. R. W. Chapman, ed. 2nd ed. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1926</Edition> <Date>1815</Date> <body> <loc><locdoc>AusEmma5</locdoc><milestone n=5> <div0 type=part n=1> <div1 type=chapter n=1> Emma Woodhouse, 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. She was the youngest of the two daughters of a most affectionate, indulgent father, and had, in consequence of her sister's marriage, been mistress of his house from a very early period. Her mother had died too long ago for her to have more than an indistinct remembrance of her caresses, and her place had been supplied by an excellent woman as governess, who had fallen little short of a mother in affection. Sixteen years had Miss Taylor been in Mr . . .
