![]() ![]() Instead, she’s quiet, sensible, full of remorse at not having the courage of her convictions years ago, and surrounded by a bunch of oxygen thieves. Unlike Elizabeth Bennet, arguably the public’s favourite Austen heroine, Anne is not playful or witty. Instead, she’s left to do the end-of-lease clean on the family estate, before being packed off in a pig cart to manage her hypochondriac sister. ![]() ![]() Now 27 and considered a bit of an old maid, Anne isn’t relocating to fashionable Bath with the relatives. Not only is she about to lose her home, the new tenants are related to the man whose proposal she was persuaded to reject at age 19. Of course, this brings complications of the heart for Anne Elliot (Amanda Root), the baronet’s daughter. It’s clear which group is on the up, and the baronet is forced to rent his property to the admiral to pay his debts. The film opens with a navy admiral returning triumphant from the war his arrival is juxtaposed against an angry mob gathering around the estate of a pompous, spendthrift baronet. Persuasion was Austen’s last finished novel, written when the society she so eloquently satirised was beginning to significantly change. ![]()
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