The above sketch is the closest thing we have to a real portrait of English writer Jane Austen. It was drawn by Jane’s sister, Cassandra Austen (c.1810). It is an unfinished pencil-and-watercolour sketch and it shows Jane seated, looking away,…
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Persuasion (1817) – Part 1 – The Navy (Jane Austen)
Welcome again to my Wednesday literature segment. Today I feature various short excerpts from English writer Jane Austen’s book Persuasion, a novel I just finished this morning and, with some regret, I must admit, since the protagonist Anne Elliot was…
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