Croft are also one of the rare examples of an older couple with a model marriage in Austen’s work. Created by the original team behind SparkNotes, LitCharts are the worlds best. Clay are all seeking a second love after the loss of their first fiancée, wife, and husband respectively. Welcome to the LitCharts study guide on Jane Austens Pride and Prejudice. Similarly, the characters of Captain Benwick, Mr. Persuasion is Austen’s only work that engages love in later stages of life Anne Elliot, at twenty-eight, nears the age of spinsterhood for a woman in her era and has “lost her bloom.” Her romance with Captain Wentworth commences in a “second spring,” years after they first fall in love and then fall out. Whatever the case, the novel does seem to possess a more elegiac and meditative tone than some of Austen’s earlier, spritely works such as EmmaĪ Second Spring. Some critics have drawn parallels between Austen’s own life situation as an unmarried “spinster” and that of her protagonist, Anne, and that there are glimpses of a sorrow about mortality that are attributable to the context of her illness in this last novel. Austen wrote Persuasion while dying from what was possibly Addison’s disease she finished alterations of its final chapters a year before her death.
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