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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Billington, Rachel.
[Perfect Happiness]
Emma & Knightley : Perfect Happiness in Highbury / Rachel Billington.
p. cm.
Previously published as: Perfect Happiness.
A sequel to Jane Austen’s Emma.
ISBN-13: 978-1-4022-1207-9
ISBN-10: 1-4022-1207-0
1. Married women--Fiction. 2. England--Fiction. I. Austen, Jane, 1775-1817. Emma. II. Title. III. Title: Emma and Knightley.
PR6052.I4P47 2008
823’.914--dc22
2007042424