What are the setting and atmosphere of Jane Austen's Emma?

The setting
ofis the village of Highbury and its environs, where Emma has lived her entire life. Major
settings within or near Highbury include Hartfield, the grand home Emma shares with her invalid
father, nearby Randalls, where her former governess lives with her new husband, and the rooms
above a shop in downtown Highbury, where Miss and Mrs. Bates live and Jane Fairfax comes to
stay. Emma and Harriet walk on Parsonage Lane, which contains the parsonage where Mr. Elton
lives, as well as some miserable hovels where they visit the poor. Emma and her friends make up
a "party" to go to Box Hill seven miles away, as far as Emma has ever been from home,
and...