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I admit that it's only been in the past few years that I've read and grown to appreciate Jane Austin. Persuasion was the last complete novel that she wrote and it was published in December 1817 about five months after her death at age 41.
The protagonists, Anne Hewitt and Frederick Wentworth, meet after having been estranged for 8 1/2 years following a broken engagement. Both have suffered and they have to overcome these long years of separation and the complicated and constricting rules of thei ...more
The protagonists, Anne Hewitt and Frederick Wentworth, meet after having been estranged for 8 1/2 years following a broken engagement. Both have suffered and they have to overcome these long years of separation and the complicated and constricting rules of thei ...more
Highly recommend this rather high brow lecture by a very learned literary person as to why Jane Austen, and Persuasion in particular, is such an important book:
https://youtu.be/IVdBmCWp27s ...more
https://youtu.be/IVdBmCWp27s ...more
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