Persuasion is Jane Austen39;s last completed novel.
More than seven years prior to the events in the novel, Anne Elliot falls in love with a handsome young naval officer named Frederick Wentworth, who is intelligent and ambitious, but poor. Sir Walter, Anne39;s father and lord of the family estate of Kellynch, and her older sister Elizabeth are dissatisfied with her choice, maintaining that he is not distinguished enough for their family. Her older friend and mentor, Lady Russell, acting in place of Anne39;s deceased mother, persuades her to break off the match.
Now, aged 27 and still unmarried, Anne reencounters her former fianc when his sister and brotherinlaw, the Crofts, take out a lease on Kellynch. Wentworth, now a captain, is wealthy from wartime victories in the Royal Navy and from prizemoney for capturing enemy ships. However, he has not forgiven Anne for her rejection of him.
The selfinterested machinations of Anne39;s father, her older sister Elizabeth, Elizabeth39;s friend Mrs. Clay, and William Elliot Anne39;s cousin and her father39;s heir constitute important subplots.
Jane Austen 16 December 1775 18 July 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 and biting social commentary cementing her historical importance among scholars and critics.
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