... Jane Austen's last finished piece of work, is very different from her earlier novels. The main character, Anne Elliot, at 27 years old, is older than any other Austen heroine, and the greatest romance in her life has apparently taken place more than seven years before the novel begins. She had been courted by a dashing but penniless young naval officer, Frederick ... Wentworth, and had accepted him. Then, persuaded by a wary older friend that the marriage would not work out well, she broke the engagement, hence the name Persuasion. Since that unhappy event, ... and Prejudice and Emma. S...

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... write. Impressively, at the age of fourteen she wrote her first novel. It was entitled Love and Friendship and soon after she published A History of England by a Partial, Prejudiced and Ignorant Historian. In her early twenties Jane Austen wrote the novels that were late published as Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, and Northanger Abbey. The Watson's was another of her novels, however it was never completed. Her ... other three books Mansfield Park, Emma, and Persuasion belong to a later period which were written between 1811 and 1816. Mansfield Park was published in 1814 and...

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• Grade Level: High School