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- Emma's educator has been Miss Taylor, who at the outset of the novel has married Mr. Weston; she, unlike Knightley, is not suspicious of the relationship between Emma and Harriet Smith.
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At the beginning of the novel, Miss Taylor becomes Mrs. Weston when she is married to and becomes the second wife of local widower Mr. Weston. The match being orchestrated by Emma herself. Mr. Weston was a wealthy man and widower, so Miss Taylor was able to transcend classes from governess to a married gentlewoman. Though Emma is pleased by the ...
- Emma Woodhouse. The protagonist of the novel. In the well-known first sentence of the novel, the narrator describes Emma as “handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition.”
- Mr. George Knightley. Emma’s brother-in-law and the Woodhouses’ trusted friend and advisor. Knightley is a respected landowner in his late thirties. He lives at Donwell Abbey and leases property to the Martins, a family of wealthy farmers whom he likes and counsels.
- Mr. Woodhouse. Emma’s father and the patriarch of Hartfield, the Woodhouse estate. Though Mr. Woodhouse is nervous, frail, and prone to hypochondria, he is also known for his friendliness and his attachment to his daughter.
- Harriet Smith. A pretty but unremarkable seventeen-year-old woman of uncertain parentage, who lives at the local boarding school. Harriet becomes Emma’s protégé and the object of her matchmaking schemes.
Mr Weston is a widower and a businessman living in Highbury who marries Miss Taylor in his early 40s, after buying a house called Randalls. By his first marriage, he is father to Frank Weston Churchill, who was adopted and raised by his late wife's brother and his wife.
- Jane Austen
- 1815
Youthful Emma Woodhouse, whose long-time governess and friend Miss Taylor has just married Mr. Weston, takes some solace in being left alone with her aging father by claiming that she made the match herself.
After Emma’s older sister, Isabella, was married and moved to London, Miss Taylor and Emma became best friends. As the novel begins, Miss Taylor has just left Hartfield, the estate of Emma and Mr. Woodhouse, to marry a widower named Mr. Weston, and Emma is left without a companion.
Dec 8, 2023 · When Miss Taylor marries and becomes Mrs. Weston, she moves out, leaving Emma bereft and prompting her to start maturing, although she soon seeks companionship with Harriet Smith.
Miss Taylor has married Mr. Weston, a widower of good fortune and pleasant manners, depriving Emma of her constant companion. Her elderly father, Mr. Woodhouse, is even more distressed by Miss Taylor’s departure, as he hates change of every kind and cannot see her happiness beyond the unpleasantness of his discomfort.
