PersuasionBroadview Press, 1998 M08 11 - 312 pages For her last novel’s plot, Austen returns to the tensions of inheritance; but the once satisfactory solution—security on a landed estate—no longer applies. Here, Anne, the unappreciated middle daughter of the Elliots, has new choices to make, between the customs and traditions in which she was brought up and the excitement of the unknown. |
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Contents
Introduction | 7 |
Acknowledgements | 38 |
Appendix A The cancelled chapters of Persuasion | 259 |
Extracts from Jane Austens letters | 275 |
Appendix F From the Annual Register London 1806 | 289 |
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