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Originally Posted by sun surfer
Could someone help me with this one:
A classic English novel with a female protagonist who at some point goes to visit her sister (or perhaps cousin or relative?) Isabella. Isabella lives in London and is married and not quite so well off but happy enough.
Google tells me this is probably the novel Emma, but I don't particularly remember reading Emma. It could still be it - maybe I had to read it in school and forgot much of it - but before I decide that must be it, I'd like to make sure that there is no other novel that this could fit and that this description precisely fits Emma (all Google tells me is that Emma has a married sister Isabella).
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I think this is probably Mansfield Park. The heroine, Fanny Price, is sent at age 10 to live with her mother's sister (who married very well) at Mansfield Park.
She grows up at Mansfield Park, but makes a visit back to her mother's house when she's 18, and is distressed by the differences between the households, not just in terms of money, but also behaviour. (But this is in Portsmouth, not London.)
The sisters in question are the previous generation - one married to a wealthy man, and one not.
HTH.