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Emma Redux 1: Happily Ever After
Helen Heineman, author
Emma Redux 1: Happily Ever After
Emma Redux begins after the marriage of Emma and Knightley, and goes on through their Broadstairs honeymoon, and the adjustment of life with Mr. Woodhouse at Hartfield. The story follows Miss Taylor’s marriage to Mr. Weston, the marriage of Frank Churchill and Jane Fairfax, the death of Mr. Woodhouse, and the Knightleys’ eventual removal to Donwell. The story also follows Miss Anna Sharpe and her service at Randalls, with her daughter Edith (illegitimate offspring of Frank Churchill) and Adelaide, daughter of Mr. Weston and Miss Taylor that was. At 16, Isabella’s oldest, Henry, had become the special friend of Adelaide, and Emma wonders if they might be preparing to repeat the fate of their Uncle George and aunt Emma.
In the second half of the book, Emma’s eldest, George, and his attraction for Edith Sharpe is one of the main focuses of the story, as Mr. Knightley is not in favor of a marriage between them. Also, Henry’s attraction for Adelaide continues. Frank and Jane’s son Weston visits Highbury, and for a time it seems a relationship between him and Hetta, Emma’s oldest daughter, is growing. But Mr. Knightley is not in favor, and discourages further attentions, Weston returns to Enscombe, the family estate of the Churchills. The book ends with the introduction of two “real” characters, the sister of Charles Dickens, and Anthony Trollope, whose creation of the Warden seems to have been inspired by Henry Knightley’s description of the Reverent Rufus Brewer of Highbury.