Talk:Persuasion (novel)
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Now has info box; i removed tag
See also Talk:Persuasion, for discussion of edits made before this was spun off into a separate article.
- Just read this book, and this is in my opionion most romantic from the books by J. Austen I already read. Przepla 14:11, 29 Sep 2004 (UTC)
It is good
[edit] Lady Russell
"While far more sensible than Sir Walter Elliot, she too has a great concern with rank and does not think Wentworth is good enough for Anne because of his inferior birth." was just added and I think this is an oversimplification -- if memory serves me right, it wasn't necessarily his inferior birth (though she did have hopes Anne would marry someone of rank) it was more that he seemed too impulsive and unstable. Her prejudice in seeing him through the lens of class made her jump too quick into judging him as not being stable, etc. plange 21:57, 25 August 2006 (UTC)
- I think you're right in calling it an over-simplification. Lady Russell had other objections besides rank, as noted in chapter 4 of the novel. BellyOption 21:42, 2 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] "in her first youth"
The tone and diction of this article are a little askew. Can we find a better term for "Persuasion is the first of Austen's novels to feature a woman who is no longer in her first youth"? I had to look the term up on google to see that it wasn't just made up by the author--it wasn't, but hasn't been used once since Austen's times, if not before. --Mrcolj 15:46, 2 May 2007 (UTC)
