Description
Anne Elliot was persuaded, eight years before the novel opens, to break off her engagement to Captain Frederick Wentworth — he had no fortune and no name, and her family made sure she knew it. She’s unmarried still, quietly enduring a father and sister more concerned with appearances than with her, when Wentworth returns from the navy wealthy and accomplished. Jane Austen wrote Persuasion as her last completed novel, and it carries a harder edge than her earlier books toward the vanity and snobbery Anne has spent eight years absorbing in silence.
