Last novel by Jane Austen completed just a few months prior to her death in 1816. The main character is Ane Elliot, the daughter of a vain and foolish baronet and widower, Sir Walter Elliot. Anne is 27 and unmarried. She had been engaged to a young naval officer, Frederick Wentworth, but was persuaded to break off the engagement. Later she meets him again and love is rekindled, but does the 8 years absence make a problem? This is less satiric that Austen's earlier works. Persuasion is the brilliant story of a woman who was "forced into prudence" in her youoth but learned true romance as she grew older.