Rachel Cohen | Jane Austen : A Public Space
In Persuasion , mourning and renewal are not separate. Jane Austen (1775–1817) finished this novel during her own last illness and it has a quality of reflection all its own. Anne Elliot, living quietly in the country, has lost people she loves, and a chance at love, but as she moves once again into a broader world—a world of friendship, imagination, and of the wide seas toward the end of the Napoleonic Wars—life begins for her for a second time. This April, when we all will be living with losses, and, we hope, imagining entering the world again, come read the Austen novel in which, Vir...
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