It transpires that her identity is fake, and that her school fees will not be paid. The original twenty-page manuscript consists of two chapters describing the arrival of an apparently wealthy young girl, "Matilda Fitzgibbon", at an expensive private school. The manuscript was left unfinished at her death in 1855. Her marriage in 1854 and the lukewarm enthusiasm of her husband for the project may have contributed to her slow progress towards completion. Ī pastiche of it was written by Clare Boylan and published as Emma Brown in 2003.īrontë began work on Emma in 1853. Emma is the title of a manuscript by Charlotte Brontë, left incomplete when she died in 1855.
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