Persuasion (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Jane Austen
- First Published: 1818
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Domestic realism
- Time of Work: Early nineteenth century
- Setting: Somersetshire and Bath, England
- Genres: Long fiction, Fiction of manners, Bourgeois fiction
- Subjects: Values, Parents and children, Love or romance, Gender roles, Nineteenth century, Social issues, Marriage, Prejudices or antipathies, Class consciousness, Manners or customs, Social life, Jealousy, envy, or resentment, England or English people, Fathers, Sisters, Aristocracy or aristocrats, Gossip
- Locales: Bath, England, Somersetshire, England
Characters Discussed
Anne Elliot, the heroine, second daughter of Sir Walter Elliot, and the victim of persuasion. Although pretty and attractive, she has always been ignored by her family. When quite young, she had been wooed by Frederick Wentworth, then a junior officer in the Royal Navy; but because of her father’s disapproval and the advice of her mother’s friend, Lady Russell, she had given him up in spite of her love. At the age of twenty-six, she meets him again; his brother-in-law and sister have leased the Elliot property. Wentworth, now a captain and rich through...
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