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520    Persuasion is Jane Austen's last completed novel. She 
       began it soon after she had finished Emma and completed it
       in August 1816. More than eight years before the novel 
       opens, Anne Elliot, then a lovely, thoughtful, warm-
       hearted 19-year old, accepted a proposal of marriage from 
       the handsome young naval officer Frederick Wentworth. He 
       was clever, confident, and ambitious, but poor and with no
       particular family connections to recommend him. Sir Walter,
       Anne's fatuous, snobbish father and her equally self-
       involved older sister Elizabeth were dissatisfied with her
       choice, maintaining that he was no match for an Elliot of 
       Kellynch Hall, the family estate. Her older friend and 
       mentor, Lady Russell, acting in place of Anne's late 
       mother, persuaded her to break the engagement, for she, 
       too felt it was an imprudent match that was beneath 
       Anne.Now 27 and still unmarried, Anne re-encounters her 
       former love when his sister and brother-in-law, the Crofts,
       take out a lease on Kellynch. Wentworth is now a captain 
       and wealthy from maritime victories in the Napoleonic 
       wars. However, he has not forgiven Anne for rejecting him.
       While publicly declaring that he is ready to marry any 
       suitable young woman who catches his fancy, he privately 
       resolves that he is ready to become attached to any 
       appealing young woman with the exception of Anne Elliot. 
       Persuasion is widely appreciated as a moving love story 
       despite what has been called its simple plot, and it 
       exemplifies Austen's signature wit and ironic narrative 
       style. While writing Persuasion, however, Austen became 
       ill with the disease that would kill her less than two 
       years later. As a result, the novel is both shorter and 
       arguably less polished than Mansfield Park and Emma since 
       it was not subject to the author's usual careful 
       retrospective revision. The novel is described in the 
       introduction to the Penguin Classics edition as a great 
       Cinderella story. It features a heroine who is generally 
       unappreciated and to some degree exploited by those around
       her; a handsome prince who appears on the scene but seems 
       more interested in the "more obvious" charms of others; a 
       moment of realisation; and the final happy ending. It has 
       been said that it is not that Anne is unloved, but rather 
       that those around her no longer see her clearly: she is 
       such a fixed part of their lives that her likes and 
       dislikes, wishes and dreams are no longer considered, even
       by those who claim to value her, like Lady 
       Russell.Persuasion is linked to Northanger Abbey not only 
       by the fact that the two books were originally bound up in
       one volume and published together, but also because both 
       stories are set partly in Bath, a fashionable city with 
       which Austen was well acquainted, having lived there from 
       1801 to 1805.Persuasion has been the subject of several TV
       and film adaptations.Jane Austen (1775-1817) was an 
       English novelist whose works of romantic fiction, set 
       among the landed gentry, earned her a place as one of the 
       most widely read writers in English literature. Her 
       realism, biting irony and social commentary have gained 
       her historical importance among scholars and critics.From 
       1811 until 1816, with the release of Sense and Sensibility
       (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814) 
       and Emma (1816), she achieved success as a published 
       writer. She wrote two additional novels, Northanger Abbey 
       and Persuasion, both published posthumously in 1818, and 
       began a third, which was eventually titled Sanditon, but 
       died before completing it.In 1994, American literary 
       critic Harold Bloom placed Austen among the greatest 
       Western Writers of all time. In a 2002 poll to determine 
       whom the UK public considers the greatest British people 
       in history, Austen was ranked number 70 in the list of the
       "100 Greatest Britons". In 2003, Austen's Pride and 
       Prejudice came second in the BBC's The Big Read, a 
       national poll to find the "Nation's best-loved book." 
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