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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, ...

  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. Mansfield Park - Wikipedia

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    Mansfield Park is the third published novel by the English author Jane Austen, first published in 1814 by Thomas Egerton.A second edition was published in 1816 by John Murray, still within Austen's lifetime.

  5. Northanger Abbey - Wikipedia

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    Northanger Abbey (/ ˈ n ɔːr θ æ ŋ ər / NOR-thang-ər) is a coming-of-age novel and a satire of Gothic novels [1] written by the English author Jane Austen.Although the title page is dated 1818 and was published posthumously in 1817 with Persuasion, Northanger Abbey was completed in 1803, making it the first of Austen's novels to be completed in full. [2]

  6. Persuasion (2022 film) - Wikipedia

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    Persuasion is a 2022 American historical romance film based on Jane Austen's 1817 novel of the same name. It was directed by Carrie Cracknell from a screenplay by Ron Bass and Alice Victoria Winslow. The film stars Dakota Johnson, Cosmo Jarvis, Nikki Amuka-Bird, Mia McKenna-Bruce, Richard E. Grant, and Henry Golding.

  7. Persuasion (2007 film) - Wikipedia

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    Persuasion is a 2007 British television film adaptation of Jane Austen's 1817 novel Persuasion. It was directed by Adrian Shergold , and the screenplay was written by Simon Burke. Sally Hawkins stars as the protagonist Anne Elliot , while Rupert Penry-Jones plays Captain Frederick Wentworth .

  8. SparkNotes - Wikipedia

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    SparkNotes, originally part of a website called The Spark, is a company started by Harvard students Sam Yagan, Max Krohn, Chris Coyne, and Eli Bolotin in 1999 that originally provided study guides for literature, poetry, history, film, and philosophy.

  9. 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.