Persuasion
In Our Time: Culture
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Anne Austin's Vanity of Person and Situation
Vanity was the beginning and end of Sir Walter Elliot's character, Vanity of Person and Vanity of Situation. He judges absolutely everyone he encounters by the standards of his own good looks. You do get the feeling with Sir Walter that he's a character who stepped out of an 18th century novel - odd because we think of Persuasion as her most 19th century novel.
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