 ... constancy, she had no reason to believe him married. ' How eloquent could Anne Elliot have been, — how eloquent, at least, were her wishes, on the side of early warm attachment, and a cheerful confidence in futurity, against that over-anxious caution...  Sense and Sensibility, Emma, and Persuasion - Page 21by Jane Austen - 1903 - 1004 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Martin Price - Literary Criticism - 1983 - 400 pages
...Dashwood or Emma Woodhouse is the contrary movement we see in Elinor Dashwood or later in Anne Elliot: "She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she...older: the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning" (4). Through much of the novel Marianne is a heroine of authenticity. Restraint appears to her "not... | |
 | Virginia Woolf - Authors, English - 1984 - 388 pages
...mysterious, and more romantic than she had supposed. We feel it to be true of herself when she says of Anne: "She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she...— the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning." She dwells frequently upon the beauty and the melancholy of nature, upon the autumn where she had been... | |
 | Mary Poovey - Literary Criticism - 1985 - 309 pages
...demands of her heart. Austen's opening description of Anne's maturity summarizes her unusual career: "She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she...learned romance as she grew older — the natural sequal of an unnatural beginning" (p. 30). This statement effectively suspends our estimation of Lady... | |
 | Katherine Dalsimer - Psychology - 1986 - 164 pages
...receive any of such certain immediate wretchedness, such uncertain future good. . . . How eloquent would Anne Elliot have been, — how eloquent, at least,...— the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning, [pp. 57-58] The quiet surprise of the final sentence is its reversal of the accustomed association... | |
 | Carol Shiner Wilson, Joel Haefner - English literature - 1994 - 356 pages
...youth, came to see the value of romance, by which she meant much what Mrs. Glenmorris did. Anne Elliot "had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older" (Persuasion Ch. 4). That is, Anne learned to trust her own feelings and judgment, to venture beyond... | |
 | Valerie Grosvenor Myer - Biography & Autobiography - 1997 - 314 pages
...surely have preferred a husband to a legacy. Towards the end of Persuasion comes the famous passage: How eloquent could Anne Elliot have been, - how eloquent,...in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older - die natural sequel of an unnatural beginning. Cassandra marked it and added in the margin, 'Dear... | |
 | Judy Simons - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 242 pages
...response to Austen's earlier stories in which girls are forced to renounce their romantic ambitions: Anne 'had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned...older - the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning' (I, ch. 4). It is she who teaches Captain Wentworth the limits of masculine assertiveness. Placed in... | |
 | Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...was an easy step to silence. There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort. 646 Persuasion 꿘 0 ć E Д Д n Ǎ傀 647 Persuasion Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then. 648... | |
 | Connie Robertson - Humor - 1998 - 404 pages
...was an easy step to silence. There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort. 336 Persuasion She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she...older - the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning. 337 Persuasion Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then. 338... | |
 | Sonia Hofkosh - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 212 pages
...sense, as it is an elaboration or performance of its significance. 5i! That Anne Elliot in Persuasion "learned romance as she grew older - the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning" (P, 58) - suggests not only that romance, the natural, the expression and fulfillment of individual... | |
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