As the protagonist of Jane Austen's sixth and last novel, Persuasion (1817), Anne Elliot plays an important role in the book. Jane Elliot refused to get married when she was 19 years old, when she was ...

Nick Wall/Netflix One of the most jarring aspects of “Persuasion” is the way it drops modern colloquialisms into what presents as a classic period drama. It’s very odd to hear Anne Elliot ...

Eight years ago, Anne Elliot rejected Frederick Wentworth, the man she loved, out of a sense of duty and obedience. Now an ignored and faded spinster, she follows her financially stricken family ...

For more than two centuries, Jane Austen's novels have continued to captivate readers with their wit and romance. But aside from their timeless stories and swoon-worthy affairs, her works also serve ...

In Persuasion, hopeless romantic Anne Elliot (Dakota Johnson) is persuaded by her family to break off her engagement to inconsequential naval officer Captain Frederick Wentworth (Cosmo Jarvis).

(WRIC) — Richmond’s West End Branch Library will host a showing of the 1995 movie adaptation of “Persuasion” on Wednesday ... featuring Amanda Root as Anne Elliot and Ciarán Hinds as ...

there are plenty more gold nuggets in Netflix’s Persuasion. Richard E. Grant is brilliant as the vain and arrogant Sir Walter Elliot, Mia McKenna-Bruce is fittingly grating as Anne’s ...

Set in pre-Victorian England, this movie tells the story of Anne Elliot, who now having lost her "bloom" is re-united with the dashing Captain Frederick Wentworth whose advances she had refused ...

Eight years after Anne Elliot was persuaded not to marry a dashing man of humble origins, they meet again. Will she seize her second chance at true love?