While in the novel Anne is described as a "faded and thin" woman whose "bloom had vanished", this Anne is vivacious and outspoken. However, as Roland Barthes says, the author is dead. Persuasion was published along with Northanger Abbey at the end of 1817, six months after Austen’s death. Rather than a romantic comedy of manners, it has the sorrowfully tender tone of a woman looking back on her life and imagining the happy finale she had not experienced herself. First published in 1817, it was the last novel she wrote and was completed while she was dying. Persuasion is arguably Austen's most mature work. The main difficulty comes from the fans themselves: as with many established fandoms, the perennial hunger for new material is paired with impossibly high standards and expectations.ĭirected by leading theatre director Carrie Cracknell and starring Dakota Johnson, Netflix's Persuasion tells the story of 27-year-old 'spinster' Anne Elliot, a woman with "claims of birth, beauty, and mind", as she reconnects with Captain Wentworth (Cosmo Jarvis), the suitor she was persuaded to reject eight years earlier because he was a penniless sailor. Although there have been a staggering number of Austen remakes, very few have been wholeheartedly embraced as being on par with the novels, and even fewer of those have not been based on Pride and Prejudice. When Netflix announced its adaptation of Jane Austen's Persuasion, fans of the novel were "half agony, half hope".
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