Anne Elliot and Commander Frederick Wentworth met and fell in love eight years before the story of Persuasion begins. He has asked for her hand and she has accepted. In this scene, he goes to apply to her father to obtain his consent. The events are briefly referenced in Chapter 4. Anne waited in the …
For whatever reason, Jane Austen tells us very little of the initial courtship of Anne Elliot and Frederick Wentworth. We’re told even less about the actual proposal. She only says in chapter four, “It would be difficult to say which had seen the highest perfection in the other, or which had been the happiest; …
The scene below takes place shortly after Commander Wentworth (he isn’t a captain yet) starts paying particular attention to the middle Elliot daughter. “My, my, my! He’s a handsome one,” Molly, the kitchen maid said, collapsing into her bed in the attic of Kellynch Hall. “Who’s handsome?” the scullery maid asked as she undressed for …
In the summer of 1806, Anne Elliot and Commander Wentworth are thrown together. He was, at that time, a remarkably fine young man, with a great deal of intelligence, spirit and brilliancy; and Anne an extremely pretty girl, with gentleness, modesty, taste, and feeling. Half the sum of attraction, on either side, might have been …
Frederick Wentworth was visiting his brother, a curate in Monkford, a parish near Kellynch Hall, when he was onshore between assignments in the Royal Navy when he met Anne Elliot, the daughter of Sir Walter Elliot, baronet. __________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________ “Are you sure you don’t want to go to the Winterthorpe’s dinner, Frederick?” Edward Wentworth checked …
It is the summer of 1806. Frederick Wentworth, who has yet to meet Anne Elliot, is visiting with his brother Edward, a curate in Somerset, while waiting for a ship to command. “Frederick found a home for half a year at Monkford.” – Persuasion “You are restless, Frederick,” Edward Wentworth said to his brother, and the …
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, …
I adore Persuasion and have had my head firmly residing in that world for the past year, thanks to my current work-in-progress. So I’m delighted to be kicking off this Persuasion 200 Project with the initial installment of several planned prequel posts. These will be based on events referred to in the book but which actually take …
Persuasion is Jane Austen’s last completed novel. Austen died in Winchester on July 18, 1817 at the age of 41. After Austen’s death, in December 1817, Cassandra and Henry Austen arranged with John Murray, Jane’s editor, for the publication of Persuasion and Northanger Abbey in a single volume. Henry Austen contributed a Biographical Note that, for the first time, identified …
If you enjoyed our Pride and Prejudice: The Scenes Jane Austen Never Wrote (or P&P200), you’ll be happy to learn we’re doing it again! This time we’re taking on Persuasion, Austen’s touching story about second chances for love. As a tribute to this amazing story, which began 200 years ago this summer, the authors of …
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