Tag: Elizabeth Elliot

Persuasion 200: Mary Takes the Credit – Jane Odiwe

 Of all the family, Mary was probably the one most immediately gratified by the circumstance of Anne’s engagement … Mary was one of the first to receive the news of Anne’s engagement. Calling on her father and sister in Camden Place she was eager to discuss it all, and hear from Sir Walter’s lips his …

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Persuasion 200: William Elliot meets his cousin Elizabeth

William Walter Elliot esq. is the heir presumptive of Sir Walter Elliot’s baronetcy and of Sir Walter’s property, Kellynch Hall, as Sir Walter has only daughters. His eldest daughter, Elizabeth, has, since her girlhood, considered William to be the most suitable possible husband for her—he is of the proper rank and will be a baronet, …

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