--- Thompson, British actress and screenwriter (4)

I believe the answer is:

emma

(Other definitions for emma that I've seen before include "Miss Woodhouse?" , "novelist's work" , "Flaubert's heroine" , "Jane Austen heroine" , "Girl's name - Jane Austen novel" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.

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