id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-5581 Emma (novel) - Wikipedia .html text/html 12083 1119 75 Wiltshire wrote about Austen's use of "gendered space" in Emma, noting the female characters have a disproportionate number of scenes in the drawing rooms of Highbury while the male characters often have scenes outdoors.[49] Wiltshire noted that Jane Fairfax cannot walk to the post office in the rain to pick up the mail without becoming the object of town gossip while Mr. Knightley can ride all the way to London without attracting any gossip.[49] Wiltshire described the world that the women of Highbury live in as a sort of prison, writing that in the novel "...women's imprisonment is associated with deprivation, with energies and powers perverted in their application, and events, balls and outings are linked with the arousal and satisfaction of desire".[49] ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-5581.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-5581.txt