Persuasion

Anne Elliot Is One Of Austen's Quietest Heroines, But Also One Of The Strongest And The Most Open To Change. She Lives At The Time Of The Napoleonic Wars, A Time Of Accident, Adventure, The Making Of New Fortunes And Alliances. A Woman Of No Importance, She Manoeuvres In Her Restricted Circumstances As Her Long-time Love Captain Wentworth Did In The Wars. Even Though She Is Nearly Thirty, Well Past The Sell-by Bloom Of Youth, Austen Makes Her Win Out For Herself And For Others Like Herself, In A Regenerated Society.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; There Any Unwelcome Sensations, Arising From Domestic Affairs Changed Naturally Into Pity And Contempt As He Turned Over The Almost Endless Creations Of The Last Century; And There, If Every Other Leaf Were Powerless, He Could Read His Own History With An Interest Which Never Failed