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Key facts
- Author
- Jane Austen
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- John Murray
- Publication date
- 1818 (published on 20 December 1817, although the title page is dated 1818)
- Publication place
- United Kingdom
- Preceded by
- Northanger Abbey
- Text
- Persuasion at Wikisource
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
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- Instance of
- literary work
- Named after
- persuasion
- Author
- Jane Austen
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Publisher
- John Murray
- Follows
- Northanger Abbey
- Narrative location
- England
- Image
- NorthangerPersuasionTitlePage.jpg
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- Commons category
- Persuasion by Jane Austen
- publication date
- 1817-00-00
- title
- Persuasion
- native label
- Persuasion
- language of work or name
- English language
- first line
- Sir Walter Elliot, of Kellynch-hall, in Somersetshire, was a man who, for his own amusement, never took up any book but the Baronetage; there he found occupation for an idle hour, and consolation in a distressed one; there his faculties were roused into admiration and respect, by contemplating the limited remnant of the earliest patents;
- last line
- She gloried in being a sailor’s wife, but she must pay the tax of quick alarm for belonging to that profession which is, if possible, more distinguished in its domestic virtues than in its national importance.
- copyright status
- public domain
- form of creative work
- novel
- different from
- Persuasion
- inception
- 1817-00-00
- work available at URL
- standardebooks.org/ebooks/jane-austen/persuasion
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Encyclopedic overview
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.
The story concerns Anne Elliot, an Englishwoman of 27 years, whose family moves to Bath to lower their expenses and reduce their debt by renting their estate to an admiral and his wife. The wife's brother, Captain Frederick Wentworth, was engaged to Anne in 1806, but the engagement was broken when Anne was persuaded by her friends and family to end their relationship. Anne and Captain Wentworth, both single and unattached, meet again after a separation lasting almost eight years, setting the scene for a second, well-considered chance at love and marriage for Anne.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Persuasion” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.