502 Persuasion by Jane Austen | My Last Book with Stephen Dobranski
The History of Literature
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The Immediacy of Love and Romance
Other young relationships that Jane Austen had are with Harris Big Wither, a 21-year-old heir. She apparently agreed to marry him, and then changed her mind the next morning. There are some other hints that she fell in love with a man who died soon afterwards. In persuasion, Austen's looking at something even more soaked with reflection and regret. What happens to people when they don't even get that initial happily ever after?
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