| Author: | Jane Austen | ISBN: | 1230000259220 |
| Publisher: | rabbit & snail | Publication: | August 9, 2014 |
| Imprint: | Language: | English |
| Author: | Jane Austen |
| ISBN: | 1230000259220 |
| Publisher: | rabbit & snail |
| Publication: | August 9, 2014 |
| Imprint: | |
| Language: | English |
Persuasion is Jane Austen's last novel, which although completed in August 1816, was published in December 1817, shortly after she died.
Persuasion, like Northanger Abbey, is partly set in Bath, where Austen had lived between 1801 and 1805. The story is in part a satire of the superficial social life in the city, something Austen knew well, having spent several unhappy and unproductive years in the city.
Austen was also well acquainted with one of the book’s other themes, the Royal Navy. Two of her brothers served with the Navy and rose to the rank of admiral. Persuasions follows the fortunes Anne Elliot, who had accepted a proposal of marriage from Frederick Wentworth, a dashing, confident, ambitious naval officer, when she was nineteen years earlier. Anne’s father, Sir Walter, owner of the impressive Kellynch Hall, felt that Wentworth was not suitable. Anne’s older sister, Elizabeth, and a family friend, Lady Russell, persuade her to break-off her engagement.
When Anne is twenty-seven, she meets Wentworth again when, now a wealthy and successful Captain, his sister and brother-in-law, the Crofts, lease Kellynch Hall. Wentworth has not forgiven Anne for rejecting him and makes it clear that he is eager to marry any suitable young woman, except Anne. For selfish reasons, Anne’s father and her older sister, set out to persuade Wentworth to change his mind.
Persuasion is Jane Austen's last novel, which although completed in August 1816, was published in December 1817, shortly after she died.
Persuasion, like Northanger Abbey, is partly set in Bath, where Austen had lived between 1801 and 1805. The story is in part a satire of the superficial social life in the city, something Austen knew well, having spent several unhappy and unproductive years in the city.
Austen was also well acquainted with one of the book’s other themes, the Royal Navy. Two of her brothers served with the Navy and rose to the rank of admiral. Persuasions follows the fortunes Anne Elliot, who had accepted a proposal of marriage from Frederick Wentworth, a dashing, confident, ambitious naval officer, when she was nineteen years earlier. Anne’s father, Sir Walter, owner of the impressive Kellynch Hall, felt that Wentworth was not suitable. Anne’s older sister, Elizabeth, and a family friend, Lady Russell, persuade her to break-off her engagement.
When Anne is twenty-seven, she meets Wentworth again when, now a wealthy and successful Captain, his sister and brother-in-law, the Crofts, lease Kellynch Hall. Wentworth has not forgiven Anne for rejecting him and makes it clear that he is eager to marry any suitable young woman, except Anne. For selfish reasons, Anne’s father and her older sister, set out to persuade Wentworth to change his mind.
