vicariously through her characters. One example of this is Emma, a novel written in 1815 about a clever, strong-minded girl living in a man’s world. Emma Woodhouse is the main character in the novel, but there are other female characters in the novel that represent Austen’s feminist mindset such as, Miss Bates, Jane Fairfax, Harriet Smith, and Isabella Knightley. Jane Austen broke the social norm as she wrote about the women in her famous novel, Emma, who exemplify…
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