Persuasion: Jane Austen

Persuasion by Jane Austen - Persuasion is the last novel fully completed by Jane Austen. It was published at the end of 1817, six months after her death. The story begins seven years after the broken engagement of Anne Elliot to then Commander Frederick Wentworth. Anne Elliot, then 19 years old, fell in love and accepted a proposal of marriage from the handsome young naval officer. He was clever, confident, ambitious, and employed, but not yet wealthy and with no particular family connectio...