Jane Austen's Persuasion - another classic fiction bestseller
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The discussion of classic novels continues with Jane Austen's "missing" punctuation.
About this book:
Persuasion is Jane Austen's last completed novel.
She began it soon after she had finished Emma, completing it in
August 1816. She died, aged 41, in 1817; Persuasion was published in
December that year (but dated 1818).
Persuasion is linked to Northanger Abbey not only
by the fact that the two books were originally bound up in one volume
and published together, but also because both stories are set partly
in Bath, a fashionable city with which Austen was well acquainted,
having lived there from 1801 to 1805.
More than eight years before the novel opens, Anne
Elliot, then a lovely, thoughtful, warm-hearted 19 year old, accepted
a proposal of marriage from the handsome young naval officer
Frederick Wentworth. He was clever, confident, and ambitious, but
poor and with no particular family connections to recommend him. Sir
Walter, Anne's fatuous, snobbish father and her equally self-involved
older sister Elizabeth were dissatisfied with her choice, maintaining
that he was no match for an Elliot of Kellynch Hall, the family
estate. Her older friend and mentor, Lady Russell, acting in place of
Anne's late mother, persuaded her to break the engagement.
Now 27 and still unmarried, Anne re-encounters her
former love when his sister and brother-in-law, the Crofts, take out
a lease on Kellynch. Wentworth is now a captain and wealthy from
maritime victories in the Napoleonic wars. However, he has not
forgiven Anne for rejecting him. While publicly declaring that he is
ready to marry any suitable young woman who catches his fancy, he
privately resolves that he is ready to become attached to any
appealing young woman except for Anne Elliot.
(source: Wikipedia)
(source: Wikipedia)
About the author:
Jane Austen (16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817)
was an English novelist whose works of romantic fiction, set among
the landed gentry, earned her a place as one of the most widely read
writers in English literature. Her realism, biting irony and social
commentary have gained her historical importance among scholars and
critics.
Austen's works critique the novels of sensibility
of the second half of the 18th century and are part of the transition
to 19th-century realism. Her plots, though fundamentally comic,
highlight the dependence of women on marriage to secure social
standing and economic security. Her work brought her little personal
fame and only a few positive reviews during her lifetime, but the
publication in 1869 of her nephew's A Memoir of Jane Austen
introduced her to a wider public, and by the 1940s she had become
widely accepted in academia as a great English writer.
(source: Wikipedia)
(source: Wikipedia)
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Jane Austen's Persuasion ~ 1960s Style | Jane Austen in Vermont - This is one of my favorites, along with the book synopsis inside the front cover - with such a cover and description, one wonders if this is Jane Austen's Persuasion at all! Are we in a time-warp here? - whatever is the Captain ...Students Persuaded by "Persuasion" - Better Living through Beowulf - Recently I've been marveling at the many different approaches my students take to Jane Austen's Persuasion, which is proving to be the most popular book in my first-year Austen seminar. (We've read all the major novels ...
Sold! On the Block: Brock's Illustrations for 'Persuasion' | Jane ... - A series of fine ink and watercolour drawings for Jane Austen's Persuasion, 1909. 14 pen and ink and watercolour drawings including one for the title-page (most c.280 x 180mm) on paper (390 x 270mm), and later mounted ...
Enough already with the "Jane Austen needed a man" to rescue her ... - Jane Austen can't spell, sucked at grammar and punctuation, and needed a man to complete her! So says Oxford scholar Kathryn Sutherland! Hominy grits! I was going to coldly ignore this folly and nonsense; deignfully not ...
LIT363: The Nineteenth-Century British Novel | Harriet Hustis - ... or use the e-texts available from the TCNJ Library at [http://libguides.tcnj.edu/LIT363NineteenthCenturyBritishNovel]. ISBN #s are given for your convenience.) Jane Austen, Persuasion, Oxford, ISBN-13: 978-0199535552
An Austen Romance for Dems and GOP? - It so happens that I was able to connect the election to Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon and Jane Austen's Persuasion fairly easily. To link Obama with Song of Solomon in my 20th-century survey of English-language ...
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