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May 2014 Guest Editor Daisy Goodwin on Persuasion...
I love Jane Austen with a deep and enduring passion, and I think the story of Anne Elliott’s second chance is possibly my favourite. The way that she revives as a character like a flower soaking up water is quite miraculous. It is also has a plot of clockwork perfection. I read this book at least once a year and I always find something new to marvel at.
What does persuasion mean - a firm belief, or the action of persuading someone to think something else? Anne Elliot is one of Austen's quietest heroines, but also one of the strongest and the most open to change. She lives at the time of the Napoleonic wars, a time of accident, adventure, the making of new fortunes and alliances.
A woman of no importance, she manoeuvres in her restricted circumstances as her long-time love Captain Wentworth did in the wars. Even though she is nearly thirty, well past the sell-by bloom of youth, Austen makes her win out for herself and for others like herself, in a regenerated society.
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ISBN: 9781840227994
Publication date: 07/09/2020
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9780141439686
Publication date: 27/03/2003
Publisher: Penguin Classics an imprint of Penguin Books Ltd
Format: Paperback
| ISBN: | 9781840227994 |
| Publication date: | 7th September 2020 |
| Author: | Jane Austen |
| Publisher: | Wordsworth Editions Ltd |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 240 pages |
| Genres: | Classics, Literary Fiction, |
| Categories: | Classic fiction (pre c 1945), |
Jane Austen was born on 16 December 1775 at Steventon near Basingstoke, the seventh child of the rector of the parish. She lived with her family at Steventon until they moved to Bath when her father retired in 1801. After his death in 1805, she moved around with her mother; in 1809, they settled in Chawton, near Alton, Hampshire. Here she remained, except for a few visits to London, until in May 1817 she moved to Winchester to be near her doctor. There she died on 18 July 1817. As a girl Jane Austen wrote stories, including burlesques of popular romances. Her works were only published after ...
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