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way.—Mrs. Weston’s poultry-house was robbed one night of all her turkies—evidently by the ingenuity of man. Other poultry-yards in the neighbourhood also suffered.—Pilfering was housebreaking to Mr. Woodhouse’s fears.—He was very uneasy; and but for the sense of his son-in-law’s protection, would have been under wretched alarm every night of his life. The strength, resolution, and presence of mind of the Mr. Knightleys, commanded his fullest dependance. While either of them protected him and his, Hartfield was safe.—But Mr. John Knightley must be in London again by the end of the first week in November.

The result of this distress was, that, with a much more voluntary, cheerful consent than his daughter had ever presumed to hope for at the moment, she was able to fix her wedding-day— and Mr. Elton was called on, within a month from the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Martin, to join the hands of Mr. Knightley and Miss Woodhouse.

The wedding was very much like other weddings, where the parties have no taste for finery or parade; and Mrs. Elton, from the particulars detailed by her husband, thought it all extremely shabby, and very inferior to her own.—“Very little white satin, very few lace veils; a most pitiful business!—Selina would stare when she heard of it.”—But, in spite of these deficiencies, the wishes, the hopes, the confidence, the predictions of the small band of true friends who witnessed the ceremony, were fully answered in the perfect happiness of the union.

Emendations to the Text

I am indebted to R. W. Chapman’s edition of Emma, in The Novels of Jane Austen (3rd edn, with additional notes by Mary Lascelles, Oxford, 1966). Where Chapman’s emendations seem fully justified by the sense or by similar usage elsewhere, I have followed them without comment; but where there is room for doubt, I have indicated the nature of the change in the notes, or restored the text to its original version of1816. Original spelling, except for some emendation to proper names, has been retained throughout.

PENGUIN EDITION

FIRST EDITION

Volume One

p. 11, 44 Brunswick Square Brunswick-square

p. 29 it. it. .

p. 32 valuable. The valuable The

p. 46 most happy mos happy

p. 80 consider conder

p. 97 prohibited probibited

p. 105 extricated him extricated himself

p. 116 Churchills’ Churchills

p. 122 carriages carriage

p. 124 struggles truggles

p. 130 Cox Coxe

Volume Two

p. 167 on one

p. 192 charges changes

p. 194 fortune fortuue

p. 230 Chapter XI Chapter XIII

p. 236 any thing I could have imagined any thing could have imagined

p. 241 exclaim exclain

p. 241 your you

p. 253 sigh sign

p. 267 suppose supposed

Volume Three

p. 295 Randalls (throughout) Randall’s

p. 306 from fron

p. 332 King’s-Weston Kings Weston

p. 359 pianoforté piano forté

p. 369 that does not relate to one that does relate to one

p. 371 She stopped Shestopped

p. 383 he had been used to do she had been used to do

p. 397 ride side

p. 405 he could stay no longer. he could stay no longer?

p. 417 pianoforté piano-forté

p. 428 to-morrow to morrow

p. 435 the news must be spread farther the news must spread farther

p. 441 in time they will be. in time they will.

p. 442 language lauguage

Notes

The following abbreviations are adopted in the explanatory Notes.

Bradbrook E. W. Bradbrook, Jane Austen and Her Predecessors (Cambridge, 1996)

Chapman R. W. Chapman (ed.), Emma, in The Novels of Jane Austen (3rd edn, with additional notes by Mary Lascelles, 5 vols, Oxford, 1966)

LettersJane Austen’s Letters, ed. D. Le Faye (3rd edn, Oxford, 1995)

Moler K. L. Moler, Jane Austen’s Art of Allusion (Lincoln, Nebraska, 1968)

Piggott P. Piggott, The Innocent Diversion (London, 1979)

DEDICATION

1. The Prince Regent was an admirer of Austen’s work. In November 1815 she was invited to Carlton House to meet his Librarian, James Stanier Clarke, who indicated that she might dedicate her forthcoming novel to the Prince. On receipt of the presentation volume, Clarke wrote to Austen with ideas for her next work; her response was the