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An early, unfinished novel "The Watsons" is believed by some critics to be an early form of Emma, but the similarity appears to me to be mainly in the name. First, as David Hopkinson points out, Austen abandoned "The Watsons" ("The Watsons," in J. David Grey, A. Walton Litz, and Brian Southam, eds., The Jane Austen Companion, Macmillan 1986, 394–398; 395). Secondly, the heroine is very unlike Emma Woodhouse, although she does have character and vitality. She rescues a younger boy, Charles Blake, from a humiliating experience of rejection at a dance. She is decidedly not...
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