Character Sketch of Anne Elliot from "Persuasion" by Jane Austen

Anne Elliotby Hamlette
Anne Elliot is an anomaly.  She doesn't fit the pattern of an Austen heroine.  She's not young.  She's part of the nobility.  And her great, sweepingly romantic story is, in some ways, over before the book begins.  We see all of Austen's other heroines fall in love, but not Anne.  Hers is not a story of finding a man to love, but of reclaiming the man that she chose to part from years earlier.



And unlike most of Austen's heroines, Anne spend...