Persuasion is the last completed novel Jane Austen wrote, and was first published posthumously, in 1818. Jane Austen began her last book soon after she had finished Emma, and completed it in August, 1816. Persuasion is connected with Northanger Abbey not only by the fact that the two books were originally bound up in one volume and published together two years later, and are still so issued in print, but in the circumstance that in both stories the scene is laid partly in Bath, a health resort with which Jane Austen was well acquainted, as having been her place of residence from the year 1801 till 1805. The title refers to the persuasion to which the heroine, Anne Elliot, has given in, to her later regret. The title of the novel was not chosen by Austen and some critics believe she was to name it "The Elliots".

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Wikipedia: Persuasion (novel)
Wikipedia: Jane Austen
Sparknotes.com: Persuasion
IPL.org Online Literary Criticism Collection: Persuasion

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