![]() Here are my take on Blake Snyder’s 15 beats for this classic Austen romance: Their second chance at love plays out in the English countryside, at a seaside resort town, and in the city of Bath. ![]() In hero Frederick Wentworth, we witness a self-made man, now a wealthy captain in the British Navy, who still harbors a broken heart at the way Anne ended their engagement when she was 19. We see a mature and self-reflective heroine in Anne Elliot, a 27-year-old highborn lady, who has come to accept that the happiest version of her life and her best chance at romantic love may have already passed her by. For me and for countless other readers, it’s a story that has lingered and resonated deeply over the decades. Pride and Prejudice may have been my first and most passionate literary love, but Persuasion, published half a year after the author’s death, is Austen all grown up. ![]() ![]() (1996)Īmong those who know me even a little, it’s surprising to exactly no one that, when given the opportunity to write a beat sheet for Jane Austen’s Persuasion, I jumped at it like a single woman at a Regency ball who was just asked to dance by a handsome naval officer. Publisher: John Murray, London, 1817/1818 - my edition: The Book of the Month Club, Inc. ![]()
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