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...the novel, Emma's overactive imagination has led her to create her own world rather than engage things as they truly are. Her imagination has the same effect on her that the magic dew of the wild pansy has on the characters in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. Nothing is quite what it seems to be. Everything is upside down and reversed: Bottom's head is that of an ass, and even the seasons "change their wonted liveries" (Shakespeare 59). Austen replicates Shakespeare's "play" throughout Emma, making summer into winter, day into night, and dreams into reality (Austen 347, 360, 372, 421, 424). It is a novel of games and spoofs and turn-abouts. The world of Emma is topsy turvy. (1)

Ever since I first read Emma, I have wanted to see Box Hill. I attempted a trip there when I was attending a conference in London in November 2001, but, alas, I inadvertently left my map behind when I went to the station. I assumed everyone in England knew the site, but learned that the attendants at the information booth had never heard of Box Hill. I told them it was a famous place in one of Jane Austen's novels, but while that tidbit of information garnered a smile, it did not bring me geographically any closer to my desired destination. If I walked back to my hotel to...

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