“You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope”; Jane Austen’s timeless words from Persuasion on love, longing and the feelings we struggle to put into words
Jane Austen was born in 1775 and died in 1817. Her novels explored love, marriage, family, money, social expectations and the choices available to women in her time. Her writing remains powerful because romance in her novels rarely exists in isolation. Love is shaped by pride, class, reputation, family pressure and personal judgement. Persuasion, her…
