Persuasion

1 About this book

Persuasion is the last novel completed by the English author Jane Austen. It was published with Northanger Abbey on 20 December 1817, six months after her death, although the title page is dated 1818.

The story concerns Anne Elliot, a 27-year-old Englishwoman whose family moves to Bath to lower their expenses and reduce their debt by renting their estate to an admiral and his wife. Eight years before, Anne and the wife's brother, Captain Frederick Wentworth, had been engaged, but Anne had been persuaded by her friends and family to break the engagement. Now Anne and Captain Wentworth meet again, setting the scene for the story.

The novel was well received in the early 19th century, but its greater fame came later in the century and continued into the 20th and 21st centuries. Scholars consider Anne Elliot Austen’s most mature heroine and the novel her most refined literary work.

Summary adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

• Romance, historical
• Romance
• Rejection (Psychology)
• Relationships
• Psychological fiction
• Courtship
• Officers
• Great britain