'Captain Wentworth was there, at a desk in one corner of the room, writing a letter.'
This book is a story of love and marriage. Anne Elliott and Captain Wentworth were in love when they were young, but their marriage was not accepted by people around them. Although she thought he forgot her, he didn't. Then they meet again many years later and they are still in love!
Jane Autsen is one of the most important of all English writers. Her books are mostly about men and young women and love. "Sense and Sensibility" and "Pride and Prejudice" are the most famous books of hers, but I got interested in this book because it was the final publication for her. I wrote a report about this in the class of History of English Literature, so I researched a lot about its characters.
The heroine, Anne is a very quiet and clever woman. She chose her partner for non-related to honor and status. One the other hand, women around her all want to marry someone rich, for they have their only way to be rich and gain a better status. I think the reason of the tendency is that women those days in England hadn't had such an important social role and it was male-centered society. I like Anne's thinking.
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Reference
Austen, Jane. Strange, Derek. (1818). Persuasion. London, England; Pearson Education Limited.
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