Persuasion celebrates romantic constancy in an era of turbulent change.
More than seven years earlier she complied with duty: persuaded to view the match as imprudent and improper, she broke off her engagement to a naval captain with ne.
Anne Elliot seems to have given up on present happiness and has resigned herself to living off her memories.
Written as the Napoleonic Wars were ending, the novel examines how a woman can at once remain faithful to her past and still move forward into the future.
Persuasion celebrates romantic constancy in an era of turbulent change