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Do Overdue: Ep 577 - Persuasion, by Jane Austen

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What Do You Want Me to Remember?

Jane Austen's brother named this book Persuasion. The only evidence that we have of a title that Jane Austen been thinking of was the Elliot's which sounds makes it sound like a Victorian sitcom or something. And we're talking about the nature of of female power in the society where there's like not a lot of it. As opposed to trying to identify how every part of the book is like a take on something else.

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