345 pages
English language
Published Jan. 6, 2009 by Simon & Schuster Paperbacks.
4 stars
(2 reviews)
Twenty-seven-year old Anne Elliot is Austen's most adult heroine. Eight years before the story proper begins, she is happily betrothed to a naval officer, Frederick Wentworth, but she precipitously breaks off the engagement when persuaded by her family.
Subjects
- Ship captains
- Motherless families
- Fiction
- Rejection (Psychology)
- Young women