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  2. Persuasion (novel) - Wikipedia

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

  3. Anne Elliot - Wikipedia

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    Anne Elliot is the protagonist of Jane Austen's sixth and last completed novel, Persuasion (1817).. Anne Elliot was persuaded, when she was 19 years old, to break off her engagement with Frederick Wentworth, a promising young lieutenant in the Royal Navy but a commoner without fortune, and she has never married.

  4. Frederick Wentworth (Persuasion) - Wikipedia

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    Captain Frederick Wentworth is a fictional character in the 1817 novel Persuasion written by Jane Austen. He is the prototype of the new gentleman in the 19th century: a self-made man who makes his fortune by hard work rather than inheritance.

  5. Jane Austen - Wikipedia

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    Jane Austen (/ ˈ ɒ s t ɪ n, ˈ ɔː s t ɪ n / OST-in, AW-stin; 16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817) was an English novelist known primarily for her six novels, which implicitly interpret, critique, and comment on the English landed gentry at the end of the 18th century. Austen's plots often explore the dependence of women on marriage for the ...

  6. The top 16 Jane Austen adaptations, from Pride and ... - AOL

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    Austen wrote six full-length novels before she died: Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814), Emma (1816) – while Northanger Abbey and Persuasion were ...

  7. 'Persuasion' review: 'Fleabag' tweaks clash with Jane Austen ...

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    From its first trailer, Netflix's new adaptation of Persuasion had Jane Austen's fans riled. Many took to Twitter to denounce the Fleabag-ification of humble heroine Anne Elliot. Some lamented ...

  8. Review: Netflix's Jane Austen adaptation 'Persuasion' is a ...

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    The “B” excerpts are from the movie, which I suppose you could also call “Persuasion,” insofar as it appears to have lifted sentences from the novel and fed them through some kind of ...

  9. Styles and themes of Jane Austen - Wikipedia

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    Mansfield Park and Persuasion are the novels most often cited as examples of Austen's growing religiosity. For example, Persuasion "is subtly different from the laxer, more permissive social atmosphere of the three novels Jane Austen began before 1800" [91] and contains more frequent references to Providence. [92]