Persuasion [with Biographical Introduction]

by Jane Austen

Haha sarcasm!

spoken most disrespectfully of them all,

This could not be pardoned.

How quick come the reasons for approving what we like!

the daughter of Mr. Shepherd,

Mrs. Clay, a viper in the Bismarck of the family.

with the additional burden of two children.

Haha - Mrs. Clay’s p.o.v. selfish and climbing

Elizabeth

Lady Russell,

How eloquent could Anne Elliot have been!

on the side of early warm attachment, and a cheerful confidence in futurity, against that over-anxious caution which seems to insult exertion and distrust Providence!

Captain Wentworth's sister

the Crofts

Lady Russell's

she had a fond dependence on no human creature's having heard of it from him.

Foolish and hopeful? Question

the Admiral's

Sir Walter,

Mr. Shep...

"This indenture sheweth."

Haha the opening of a contract.

Haha

Haha

Lady Russell,

Anne

Mary,

Haha ouch.

Anne, glad to be thought of some use, glad to have anything marked out as a duty,

Uppercross Cottage

Kellynch Lodge.

Captain Wentworth

The surprise of finding himself almost alone with

Anne Elliot,

he walked to the window to recollect himself, and feel how he ought to behave.

Charles Hayter,

Haha

having got the door opened for him by some one without,

The silent, invisible, unnamed servants.

Captain Wentworth

Her sensations on the discovery made her perfectly speechless.

His kindness in stepping forward to her relief,

neither Charles Hayter's feelings, nor anybody's feelings, could interest her, till she had a little better arranged her own.

it required a long application of solitude and reflection to recover her.

At least she knows how to apply the remedy of solitude and reflection.

Anne

Captain Wentworth

Charles Hayter

Charles Hayter

the view of the last smiles of the year upon the tawny leaves, and withered hedges, and from repeating to herself some few of the thousand poetical descriptions extant of autumn,

E.g., Ode to Autumn by John Keats: from the final stanza of his “Ode to Autumn”: https://sarahemsley.com/2017/09/22/a-sense-of-an-ending-persuasion-and-keatss-ode-to-autumn/ While barrèd clouds bloom the soft-dying day, And touch the stubble-plains with rosy hue. https://allpoetry.com/Ode-To-Autumn

Haha

I would rather be overturned by him, than driven safely by anybody else."

Haha

some tender sonnet, fraught with the apt analogy of the declining year, with declining happiness, and the images of youth and hope, and spring, all gone together, blessed her memory.

Captain and Mrs. Harville,

Captain Benwick,

He had been engaged to Captain Harville's sister, and was now mourning her loss.