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Essay Archive - Jane Austen's Persuasion: An Analysis
Jane Austen's Persuasion: An Analysis
Jane Austen's Persuasion depicts a young woman's struggles with
love, friendship and family. Anne Elliot who is pretty, intelligent and
amiable, had some years before been engaged to a young naval officer,
Frederick Wentworth, but had been persuaded by her trusted friend Lady
Russell to break off the engagement, because of his lack of fortune and a
misunderstanding of his easy nature. The breach had brought great
unhappiness to Anne. Pre-Victorian England offers a romantic and whimsical
backdrop for the characters.
When the story opens Anne is twenty seven, and the bloom of her
youth....
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