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    The Persuasion Companion (Includes Study Guide, Historical Context, Biography and Character Index)
    The Persuasion Companion (Includes Study Guide, Historical Context, Biography and Character Index)
    The Persuasion Companion (Includes Study Guide, Historical Context, Biography and Character Index)
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    The Persuasion Companion (Includes Study Guide, Historical Context, Biography and Character Index)

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    Jane Austen’s “Persuasion” is a true classic that people have appreciated for over a hundred years. The fact that it is a classic doesn’t mean every reader will breeze through it with no problem at all. If you need just a little more help with Austen’s classic, then let BookCaps help with this simplified study guide!

    This annotated edition contains a comprehension study of Austen’s classic work (including chapter summaries for every chapter, overview of themes and characters, and a short biography of Stowe's life). This edition does not include the novel.

    We all need refreshers every now and then. Whether you are a student trying to cram for that big final, or someone just trying to understand a book more, BookCaps can help. We are a small, but growing company, and are adding titles every month.

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    Release dateMar 7, 2013
    ISBN9781301782093
    The Persuasion Companion (Includes Study Guide, Historical Context, Biography and Character Index)
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      The Persuasion Companion (Includes Study Guide, Historical Context, Biography and Character Index) - BookCaps

      Jane Austen’s

      Persuasion

      Includes Study Guide, Historical Context, Biography, and Character Index

      By BookCaps Study Guides/Golgotha Press

      © 2011 by Golgotha Press, Inc.

      Published at SmashWords

      Historical Context

      Jane Austen is a celebrated and much loved English novelist who primarily wrote romance novels. Some of her most famous work includes Pride and Predjudice, Sense & Sensibility and Emma. Her work chiefly concerns the lives of the landed gentry—the wealthy families of the upper classes. It is her exploration of contemporary social issues within these families and stories that have made her stories extremely popular. She was a fairly popular author at the time, but only experienced enormous success after her death. Due to publishing anonymously, Jane was an unknown author, but she was celebrated among the upper classes especially. By the 20th Century, she was known by name and generally celebrated as one of the great English novelists.

      Austen herself was born in December 1775 and died at the age of 41 in 1817. She was a member of an upper class family who were remarkably close. She did not have much fortune to speak of, however, which often prevented her from making a marriage match. She was only engaged once, but on accepting, she realized she had made a complete mistake and rejected the man in question the following day. Although not much biographical information is available for Austen, historians know that she was educated by her father and brother on returning from school, and they supported her writing. She had six brothers and one other sister. Jane Austen started to feel sick, and her health deteriorated quickly, but she continued to work on her writing until she was confined to her bed. Austen was unmarried when she died.

      Austen's earliest writing projects were for her family's own amusement, not for publication. Most of these pieces of work, including an epistolary novel, are lost—either destroyed by Austen herself, or by other family members. Austen frequently destroyed letters she wrote, and those that were not destroyed by her hand were either censored or destroyed by her sister, Cassandra.

      Persuasion was published after Austen's death. Her relatives helped to publish Persuasion and Northanger Abbey in December of the same year she died. Neither of them did well in sales beyond the first year, and her novels remained out of print for a full twelve years after her death until someone bought the rights to her novels and began publishing them again. The novel is often linked to Northanger Abbey because they were published in the same volume of work and because they both contain the location of Bath.

      The novel was written while Austen grew sicker and sicker, and, as a result, is not as polished or well written as her other novels. She also had no time to conduct revisions. It was written in a more direct manner, and the plot is quite straightforward compared to her other work. However, it is a notable novel if you consider that the protagonist is a woman much older than the blushing youths who usually are centre stage in Austen's work. It is also an unfailing exploration of societal expectations, marriage and the nature of gender roles.

      Plot Overview

      Short Synopsis

      Persuasion follows the Elliot family, and their friends and relatives, as Anne attempts to come to terms with her refusal of Captain Wentworth, a man she fell in love with eight years before. When Wentworth comes back into her life, Anne must decide whether or not she made the right choice.

      Detailed Synopsis

      Sir Walter Elliot lives with his daughters, Anne and Elizabeth, at Kellynch Hall. Unfortunately, since Lady Elliot's death, Sir Walter has not curbed his spending, and, as a result, the family is in debt. He and Elizabeth, who has taken over the running of the house since her mother's death, need convincing that something has to be done. Anne, his other daughter, is often ignored by Sir Walter because she is not as pretty and does not share his values. The youngest daughter of the family, Mary, is already married and lives with the Musgroves at Uppercross Cottage. Two family friends, Lady Russell—who has taken over raising the two daughters with motherly love—and Mr. Shepherd—who has been advising the family in financial matters for a long time—arrive to persuade the family to cut down on their spending. After some discussion and rejection of plans to cut down on their lavish lifestyle, the Elliots agree that they need to rent out Kellynch Hall to a family of wealth and prestige. The Elliot family will move to Bath in the meantime so that they can maintain their lifestyle in a small place.

      Mrs. Clay, a friend of the family and a widower, who is a close friend of Elizabeth and Sir Walter's despite her low status in society, is invited to accompany the family to Bath. Lady Russell is not pleased, because Mrs. Clay is not ideal company for the family to keep. Anne is worried that Sir Walter and Mrs. Clay will be romantically linked, which would be bad for the family's reputation. Anne does not want to go to Bath, and she is able to delay her departure when Mary demands she come to visit. Elizabeth, Mrs. Clay and Sir Walter go to Bath, and Anne goes to Uppercross Cottage to stay with Mary and her husband, Charles.

      Admiral Croft and Mrs. Croft move into Kellynch Hall. Mrs. Croft's sister is Captain Frederick Wentworth—a man Anne was engaged to around eight years prior and rejected due to Lady Russell's advice. Wentworth and Anne were in love, but Wentworth had no fortune or rank to boast of, and so he was deemed an unfit match for someone of Anne's status. The Musgrove family—including Mary's husband's parents who live at the Great House—want to meet Wentworth very much because he commanded the ship the late Richard Musgrove, Charles' brother, lived and worked on before he died. Mrs. Musgrove wants to talk to Wentworth about Richard and honour his memory. After they meet, they are delighted with his good manners, attractiveness and fortune, and there are more visits. Wentworth becomes a regular visitor at the Great House in Uppercross, and Anne tries to be as polite as she can to him.

      Henrietta and Louisa Musgrove, Charles' younger sisters, fall in love with Wentworth and spend all the time they can with him. Henrietta used to spend time with Charles Hayter, a clergyman, but has changed her mind and wants to marry Wentworth instead. When Hayter returns after being away for a little, he is surprised and upset that Henrietta seems to have forgotten about him. Tensions are high between the two men. After giving in and visiting the Hayter house during a walk one day, Henrietta and Charles Hayter seem to come to an understanding, and they are to be married. Louisa, then, is considered to be Wentworth's ideal match. While Anne prepares to meet up with Lady Russell in a few days time and go back to Kellynch with her before moving to Bath for good, the group at Uppercross suggest visiting Lyme. Captain Wentworth's friends, the Harvilles, live there.

      They go to Lyme for a few days and spend time with the Harvilles. Captain Benwick, who was meant to marry Fanny Harville until she died, has been staying with the Harvilles since his return from the sea. He and Anne strike up a friendship over literature and poetry, which Captain Harville is pleased about. Benwick is not someone to talk much, and being drawn out of his shell is good for him. One day, Anne passes a man who pays particular attention to her, and Captain Wentworth actually looks at her. It is revealed that this man is Mr. Elliot, the heir to Kellynch Hall and the Elliot fortune, and has been staying at the same inn as them. Mr. Elliot had married a wealthy woman after refusing to marry Elizabeth, and she had died six months before, leaving him in mourning. Anne is curious about him—he's an attractive man and actually looked at her.

      Captain Wentworth and Louisa are even closer by this point, and Louisa delights in being

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