Initially, Murray offered to purchase the copyright to Emma for £450 if the rights to Sense and Sensibility and Mansfield Park were included in the deal. The novel is a lively comedy of manners populated by some of Austen’s most entertaining and memorable characters, and it showcases her technical skills as a mature and experimental writer.Īccording to her sister’s notes, Jane Austen started writing Emma on January 21, 1814, and finished on March 29, 1815. Whether she chose to use a new publisher because Thomas Egerton was unwilling to print a second edition of Mansfield Park or because she hoped to get a more lucrative copyright agreement for Emma (or both), Austen offered Emma to John Murray, the prominent London publisher of The Quarterly Review as well as the works of some of the leading authors of the day. Jane Austen was at the height of her artistic powers when she wrote Emma, the fourth and last of her works to be published during her lifetime. −Jane Austen, letter to niece Anna Austen, September 9-18, 1814 "3 or 4 Families in a Country Village is the very thing to work on."
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