Anne elliot

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This month's book is Persuasion. We've read Jane Austen's major novels in six months with a small mixed -aged group of female readers at the public library here in our small town . Since my JA reading club's latest meeting (which was rather disappointing, do you remember?) I've started thinking about how the same girls/ ladies who said they didn't like Emma (some of them without even reading it) will approach to this mature work, to Jane's Anne Elliot and to her Captain Wentworth. If the…

Netflix's adaptation of Jane Austen's Persuasion is coming to the streamer this summer. Here's everything we know, including release date, cast, and more.

Last month we discussed how Jane Austen used ill-health as a plot device in Northanger Abbey, Sense and Sensibility and Emma. Let’s look at how our favourite

“But why is she twenty-seven?”

Despite being in a season of life that has been all about upheaval and waiting, July was a good month full of favorites. I actually like writing these favorites post for that very reason…it gives me an opportunity to look at the past few weeks with a lens of gratitude instead of complaint. My foot […]

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Charles Edmund Brock and his brother Henry Matthew Brock illustrated Jane Austen’s books in the early years of the 20th century.