A Year of Reading Jane Austen--Discuss Persuasion July 30 at the Westport Library

As a part of “A Year of Reading Jane Austen,” Dr. Susan Ostorv Weisser will lead a discussion of the novel Persuasion onSaturday, July 30, at 2 pm in the Westport Library’s McManus Room. The program, offered in partnership with the Jane Austen Society North America, CT Region., is free and open to the public.

In Persuasion, twenty-seven-year old Anne Elliot is Austen's most adult heroine. Eight years before the story begins, she is happily betrothed to a naval officer, Frederick Wentworth, but she breaks off the engagement when persuaded by her friend that such a match is unworthy. The breakup causes Anne’s deep and long-lasting regret. When later Wentworth returns from sea a rich and successful captain, he finds Anne's family on the brink of financial ruin and his own sister a tenant in the Elliot estate. The tension of the novel revolves around one question: Will Elliot and Wentworth be reunited?

Susan Ostrov Weisser earned her Ph.D. in English Literature from Columbia University and is presently Professor of English at Adelphi University in New York, specializing in nineteenth century novels and women's studies. She has published articles and books on women and romance, including A Craving Vacancy: Women and Sexual Love in the British Novel, 1740-1880, Women and Romance: A Reader, and most recently, The Glass Slipper: Women and Love Stories (2013). In addition, she has edited three novels, Jane Austen's Persuasion, Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre, and D.H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover. 

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