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Persuasion is the last novel completed by the English author Jane Austen.It was published on 20 December 1817, along with Northanger Abbey, six months after her death, although the title page is dated 1818.. The story concerns Anne Elliot, an Englishwoman of 27 years, whose family moves to lower their expenses and reduce their debt by renting their home to an admiral and his wife.
Persuasion by Jane Austen is a 2016 Enhanced Media publication. (Originally published in 1817) A wonderfully pleasant classic by one of my favorite writers. When I was invited to review a new book, the premise of which, is a modern -day retelling of Jane Austen’s Persuasion, I accepted immediately.
Persuasion is a novel written by Jane Austen, published posthumously in 1817.The story revolves around Anne Elliot, who falls in love with a young naval officer named Frederick Wentworth. However, due to the expectations of her society and the interference of her family and friends, Anne breaks off the engagement.
May 16, 2024 · Persuasion, novel by Jane Austen, published posthumously in 1817. Unlike her novel Northanger Abbey, with which it was published, Persuasion (written 1815–16) is a work of Austen’s maturity. Like Mansfield Park and Emma, it contains subdued satire and develops the comedy of character and manners.
Feb 1, 1994 · Austen, Jane, 1775-1817: Title: Persuasion Credits: Sharon Partridge and Martin Ward Revised by Richard Tonsing. Language: English: LoC Class: PR: Language and Literatures: English literature: Subject: England -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction Subject: Psychological fiction Subject: Young women -- Fiction Subject: Motherless ...
—Jane Austen, letter to niece Fanny Knight, March 23-25, 1817 Jane Austen’s last completed novel is also one of her most popular works. Often described as “autumnal” in tone, Persuasion is the story of a mature heroine and second chances.
Persuasion is Austen’s only work that engages love in later stages of life; Anne Elliot, at twenty-eight, nears the age of spinsterhood for a woman in her era and has “lost her bloom.”. Her romance with Captain Wentworth commences in a “second spring,” years after they first fall in love and then fall out.
Jane Austen was about forty years old when she wrote Persuasion. Until then, she had always taken as her heroine a young woman at the threshold of life, inexperienced, falling in love for the first time, aged somewhere between seventeen and twenty-one. Now she told a different kind of story. Anne Elliot is twenty-seven, with a fully mature mind ...
Published in 1817, Jane Austen's Persuasion appeared after the death of the beloved author. Miss Anne Elliot - Middle daughter to Sir Walter Elliot, Baronet. Captain Frederick Wentworth - Officer in the Royal Navy, brother of Mrs. Croft. Lady Russell - friend of the Elliot family, closest to Anne. Mr. William Elliot - cousin of Anne and heir to ...
Detroit, Mich.: Wayne State University Press, 1978. Analyzes the characters of Anne Elliot and Captain Frederick Wentworth and makes a case for Persuasion as Austen’s most romantic novel ...
