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2. Persuasion (novel) - Wikipedia

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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.

3. Anne Elliot - Wikipedia

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   Anne Elliot is the protagonist of Jane Austen's sixth and last completed novel, Persuasion (1817).. Anne Elliot was persuaded, when she was 19 years old, to break off her engagement with Frederick Wentworth, a promising young lieutenant in the Royal Navy but a commoner without fortune, and she has never married.

4. Styles and themes of Jane Austen - Wikipedia

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   Mansfield Park and Persuasion are the novels most often cited as examples of Austen's growing religiosity. For example, Persuasion "is subtly different from the laxer, more permissive social atmosphere of the three novels Jane Austen began before 1800" [91] and contains more frequent references to Providence. [92]

5. Frederick Wentworth (Persuasion) - Wikipedia

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   Austen envisions this kind of equal partnership as the ideal marriage, within the limits of 18th century social customs. Margaret Wilson sees Wentworth as combining the dynamic character of Austen's earlier diversionary men and the steadfast qualities needed in a husband. [1] The love letter written by Captain Wentworth is notable:

6. Jane Austen - Wikipedia

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   Jane Austen (/ ˈ ɒ s t ɪ n, ˈ ɔː s t ɪ n / OST-in, AW-stin; 16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817) was an English novelist known primarily for her six novels, which implicitly interpret, critique, and comment upon the English landed gentry at the end of the 18th century. Austen's plots often explore the dependence of women on marriage for ...

7. Penguin Popular Classics - Wikipedia

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   Jane Austen: 1994 [38] Pieter Christoffel Wonder: Ethan Frome: Edith Wharton: 1995 [39] Fairy Tales: Hans Christian Andersen: 1994 [40] Fanny Hill or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure: John Cleland: 1994 [41] Far From The Madding Crowd: Thomas Hardy: 1994 [42] Details from Bringing in the Sheep by Adolf Ernst Meissner: Fathers and Sons: Ivan ...

8. ‘Persuasion’ Review: Dakota Johnson Makes an Odd Fit for a ...

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   Jane Austen completed the manuscript for “Persuasion” in 1816, the year before her death. But even then, more than 200 years ago, she anticipated the conversation Hollywood is having today ...

9. Lady Russell - Wikipedia

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   Download as PDF; Printable version ... a character from the 1817 Jane Austen novel Persuasion; See also ... Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...