Persuasion

Persuasion (1818) is a characteristic Jane Austen novel, displaying the preoccupations of her later phase: the loneliness and relative helplessness of young women whose behavior is repressed by the strict codes of female propriety.

Persuasion was published posthumously in 1818. Though full of the Austen humour and sharp observation, the action of the piece is somewhat lacking (especially the scene where hero and heroine reveal their feelings for each other), and it is possible to believe that she would have revised it before publication, had she lived.

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