A/N: Thoughts? This one was surprisingly easy to write; I bet Austen chose the names of her characters very carefully.
Names
They had all been well-named, she thought. She knew that at times she could be rather wooden-headed, and Mr. Knightley – gentle, kind, chivalrous, loyal – was nothing if not his name.
The former Miss Taylor had always been the peacemaker, the one to smooth things over, to keep them all stitched together.
Emma herself could have been said to be the one to 'harry' poor Harriet, and she had been baited by Miss Bates' way of talking to say things which she bitterly regretted.
Both Jane Fairfax's complexion and her keen sense of moral uprightness could have earned her the description of fair.
However, some seemed to have been named in irony: Frank Churchill could hardly have been less so, and Augusta Elton was anything but.
And although she knew that her knight was almost certainly going to marry his poor, harried damsel in distress, she could not suppress the wistful hope that it would instead be in Emma Woodhouse that he would find a home.