Welcome to the History Tricks, where any resemblance to a boring old history lesson is purely coincidental.

Welcome to part three of our special feature on Jane Austen's books.

Today we are going to wrap up the series with books number five and six.

Book number five persuasion written in 1816 at Chauten and published in 1817 posthumously.

Jane Austen did not give it a title. She had been referring to it as the Elliott's.

But Henry, Brother Henry, Cassandra and the publisher together came up with the name persuasion.

And on to the 32nd summary.

Almost a decade after breaking an engagement with painless Frederick Wentworth,

Ian Elliott is older and still in love with the now successful officer.

Is she brave enough to share her feelings and what if he shares his back?

The End

Sir Walter Elliott, proprietor of Kellenthal, has run into some financial difficulties.

Superficial, supremely handsome, very ranked conscious.

He gets along very well with the eldest of his daughters Elizabeth,

who is cut from the same cloth.

Younger daughter Mary, who was a very nervous woman,

is undramatically married and living nearby.

Now she's married to a respectable but kind of unremarkable man,

but she's nearby so that's good.

And our heroine is the middle daughter.

She's kind, intelligent, takes after her mother evidently, completely overlooked

and taken for granted by all the members of her family.

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