Book description
Eight years ago, Anne Elliot and Frederick Wentworth fell head over
heels in love. But Anne's snobbish family put a stop to their
engagement, believing the young naval captain wasn't good enough for
her. Pretty, intelligent Anne soon realises it was a terrible mistake,
and spends her twenties in the shadow of her father and her selfish
sisters. But she never forgets. Then Captain Wentworth - by now a
successful, wealthy man, looking for a wife - walks back into her life.
Can he forgive her? Does he still love her? And could they ever be
happy, after all this time? Jane Austen was born in 1775, in
Steventon, Hampshire, where her father was rector. When she was 25 the
family moved to Bath till her father's death in 1805, then to Chawton in
Hampshire where Jane lived with her mother and sister. She wrote six
novels.
Sense and Sensibility
was first in 1811, then Pride and Prejudice
(1813), Mansfield Park
(1814) and Emma
(1816). Northanger Abbey
and Persusaion
were both published posthumously, in 1817. Jane Austen died in 1817.
Well-received during her lifetime, since her death she has become known
as not just one of the greatest writers of English fiction, but one of
the most beloved.
