Persuasion (Annotated): Jane Austen Classic Romance "Persuasion" first published in December 1817

This fully annotated edition of "Persuasion" includes: Author Bio and Historical Context The great writer of the 19th century, Jane Austen, was born in Steventon, Hampshire, England, on December 16, 1775. Jane was the seventh of Reverend George Austen and Cassandra Leigh's eight children, and she was raised in a close-knit family. The future genius of the aspiring writer was cultivated in the intellectually and literaryly rich Austen household. "His good looks and his rank had one fair claim on his attachment; since to them, he must have owed a wife of very superior character to anything deserved by his own. Lady Elliot had been an excellent woman, sensible and amiable; whose judgement and conduct, if they might be pardoned the youthful infatuation which made her Lady Elliot, had never required indulgence afterwards."<br/><br/>"She had had a disappointment, moreover, which that book, and especially the history of her own family, must ever present the remembrance of. The heir presumptive, the very William Walter Elliot, Esq., whose rights had been so generously supported by her father, had disappointed her."