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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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Persuasion
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(1818) The last novel of Jane *Austen, written 1815–16 and published after her death. The heroine is the quiet, honest and faithful Anne Elliot, who differs greatly from her self-important family (in particular from her father, Sir Walter Elliot of Kellynch Hall, whose favourite reading is his own entry in the Baronetage). The story concerns the gradual coming together of Anne and Captain Frederick Wentworth, who meets her again some eight years after she refused his offer of marriage – a refusal much regretted since by her.
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She believes that he is now attached to Louisa Musgrove. An accident to Louisa on an expedition to the Cobb at *Lyme Regis – where Louisa is concussed after flirtatiously insisting on Captain Wentworth 'jumping her down' from the top – serves to delay the moment when Wentworth discovers, from a conversation in Bath, that his feelings for Anne are reciprocated.
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