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It is a novel about youthful hubris and the perils of abrupt romance in a fictional village of Highbury and the surrounding estates of Hartfield, Randalls and Donwell Abbey. It involved the relationship among individuals therein of three or four families . Emma Woodhouse took the credit as a matchmaker. The novel has Emma Woodhouse, George Knightley, France Churchill, Jane Fairfax, Harrict Smith, Robert Martin, Philip Elton Auguster Elton, Mr and Mrs Weston, Miss Bates, Henry Woodhouse, Isabella Knightley [nee Woodhouse and John Knightley] as the principal characters. It was written after the title `Pride and Prejudice` and submitted to the London publisher John Murray II [Fall of 1815]. The latter offered her £ 450, which she rejected for the manuscript plus the copyrights of `Mansfield Park`, and `Sense and Sensibility`. She published 2,000 copies of her novel at own expense, retained the copyright and paid him the commission at 10 percent.
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ISBN : 9788121216159
Pages : 423
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