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How Many Classic Novels Have a Protagonist Named Emma?
Two major classic novels.
Two major classic novels center on a female protagonist named Emma: Jane Austen’s Emma and Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary.
The Two Emmas
Key Numbers
- 2 — major classic novels with a central character named Emma
- 1815 — publication year of Austen’s Emma
- 1857 — publication year of Madame Bovary
- 42 years — interval between the two publications
One-Sentence Finding
The same first name links two major classic heroines whose stories end at opposite extremes: one alive and married, the other dead after taking arsenic.
Sources
Jane Austen — Emma
- Publisher: Penguin Classics
- Publication date: 2003
- ISBN-13: 978-0141439587
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Gustave Flaubert — Madame Bovary
- Publisher: Penguin Classics
- Publication date: 2002
- ISBN-13: 978-0140449129
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