Persuasion [with Biographical Introduction]

by Jane Austen

Fanny Harville

The waiter

"did not you hear, did not his servant say whether he belonged to the Kellynch family?" "No, ma'am, he did not mention no particular family; but he said his master was a very rich gentleman, and would be a baronight some day."

"Putting all these very extraordinary circumstances together," said Captain Wentworth, "we must consider it to be the arrangement of Providence, that you should not be introduced to your cousin."

that cousinly little interview must remain a perfect secret.

Haha

all the toil of keeping up a slow and unsatisfactory correspondence with Elizabeth fell on Anne.

Captain and Mrs. Harville

Captain Benwick;

Anne

talking as before of Mr. Scott and Lord Byron,

as unable as any other two readers, to think exactly alike of the merits of either,

Captain Harville

Nobody could do it, but that good fellow" (pointing to Captain Wentworth.)

Lord Byron's "dark blue seas" could not fail of being brought forward by their present view,

Bryon’s “Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage,” Canto 2, Stanza 17 (1812): He that has sailed upon the dark blue sea Has viewed at times, I ween, a full fair sight, ​When the fresh breeze is fair as breeze may be, The white sail set, the gallant Frigate tight— Masts, spires, and strand retiring to the right, The glorious Main expanding o'er the bow, The Convoy spread like wild swans in their flight, The dullest sailer wearing bravely now— So gaily curl the waves before each dashing prow. https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Works_of_Lord_Byron_(ed._Coleridge,_Prothero)/Poetry/Volume_2/Childe_Harold%27s_Pilgrimage/Canto_II

"Oh God! her father and mother!" "A surgeon!" said Anne.

Both seemed to look to her for directions.

"Anne, Anne," cried Charles, "What is to be done next? What, in heaven's name, is to be done next?"

She endeavoured to be composed, and to be just. Without emulating the feelings of an Emma towards her Henry,

An allusion to Matthew Prior’s poem “Henry and Emma,” based on the traditional ballad “The Nut-Brown Maid,” which tells the story of a girl who proves her selfless love by extending her devotion to the woman she considers to be her rival. https://allpoetry.com/poem/8477825-Henry-And-Emma.--A-Poem.-by-Matthew-Prior

Anne's time at Uppercross,

she

all those arrangements for the future, which, in Mr. and Mrs. Musgrove's distressed state of spirits, would have been difficulties.

The Austen sentence?

Lyme

Louisa

Ch...

He was tolerably cheerful.

Haha

Harvilles,

Captain Benwick,

He was affianced to Fanny Harville, the sister of Captain Harville, before her untimely death, ch. 11 pp. 67-68. Benwick became engaged to Louisa Musgrove.

the old nursery-maid of the family,

now living in her deserted nursery to mend stockings and dress all the blains and bruises she could get near her,

Sarah

Mrs. Musgrove

Henri...

Charles Hayter,

Captain Wentworth's

Anne

Haha - collective quote?

her being left to the solitary range of the house was the consequence.

There could not be a doubt, to her mind there was none,

Narrator, Anne p.o.v. Free indirect discourse

all that was most unlike Anne Elliot!

Lady Russell's

Mansion House,

the Co...

with its black, dripping and comfort...

Scenes had passed in Uppercross which made it precious.

some breathings of friendship and reconciliation,

What scenes are those? Amy previously described here? Question

Her first return

the Lodge,

either Anne was improved in plumpness and looks,

Haha. Before, “her bloom had vanished early; … now that she was faded and thin,” p. 3.

her cousin,

Who? Question

she was to be blessed with a second spring of youth and beauty.