Persuasion (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
At a glance:
- Author: Jane Austen
- First Published: 1818
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Domestic realism
- Time of Work: Early nineteenth century
- 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
Places Discussed
Kellynch. Elliot family estate in southwestern England’s Somersetshire, where the novel opens, with the spendthrift baronet Sir Walter Elliot reading the “Elliot of Kellynch-Hall” entry in a list of baronets. Jane Austen rarely describes buildings in any physical detail and devotes scarcely a single word to Kellynch Hall itself. The house can, however, be imagined to be a fairly impressive structure, probably a manor house dating back to the seventeenth century, as the Elliots are an “ancient and respectable family.”)
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