Character Analysis
The only woman in the Foxe sibling clan, Emma lives and works in China. She isn't really present throughout the novel, but through her letters to Tristram, we learn that "really frightening measures are being taken by the Central Government" there, including "[a] mass execution of offenders against the Increase in Family laws" (2.3.1). As if that wasn't scary enough, she also mentions that the rice crops in Fukien Province have failed (2.3.1).