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Persuasion and social change

Nicola Onyett explores the changing face of English society as reflected in Jane Austen’s last novel, Persuasion

AQA (A): Paper 1 ‘Love through the ages’: comparative set text

Jane Austen claimed not to bother with the drama of the wider world. She famously advised her niece Anna, who was thinking of writing a novel, to focus on domestic matters: ‘You are now collecting your People delightfully, getting them exactly into such a spot as is the delight of my life; — 3 or 4 Families in a Country Village is the very thing to work on’ (Letter of 9–18 September 1814).

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