Persuasion: An inside look

Introduction In this, Jane Austen's last complete work, satire and ridicule take a milder form, and the tone is more grave and tender. Jane Austen's Persuasion depicts a young woman's struggles with love, friendship and family. Anne Elliot who is pretty, able and amiable, had some years afore been affianced to a adolescent argosy officer, Frederick Wentworth, but had been abiding by her trusted acquaintance Lady Russell to break off the engagement, because of his lack of fortune and a misunderstanding of his easy nature. The breach had brought great unhappiness to Anne. Pre-Victorian England offers a adventurous ...