Fiction · 1817
Persuasion
Eight years before the novel opens, Anne Elliot was persuaded to break her engagement to a young naval officer with no fortune. Now he has returned from the wars a captain and a rich man, and she must meet him again in the small world of her family and their acquaintance.
Jane Austen finished Persuasion in 1816, the year before her death; it was published posthumously with Northanger Abbey in December 1817. Shorter and quieter than her earlier books, with an autumnal setting and a heroine past first youth, it is for many readers the most moving of the six.
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1775–1817 · Romantic
Jane Austen (1775–1817) was born at Steventon, Hampshire, the seventh of eight children of a country clergyman, and spent her life in the south of England — Steventon, Bath, Southampton and finally Chawton, where she revised and wrote the six novels on which her reputation rests: Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814), Emma (1815), and, posthumously, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion (1817). All were published anonymously in her lifetime. She died at Winchester at forty-one.
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