Why Jane Austen's Persuasion is a Seasonal Masterpiece The autumnal, brooding quiet in which Jane Austen's Persuasion begins feels as if it will never lift. Anne Elliot is fading away like a spent leaf, falling unnoticed from a tree of lost hopes, and tra...

Also new today, an illustrated blog post celebrating Austen's seasonal masterpiece, #Perusasion. #Janeite #JaneAusten: www.miriamellis.com/post/why-jan...

Watched #Perusasion on @Netflix. All around excellence. My fave Austen novel done well. Dakota Johnson's tipsy, flirty, emotionally weary on going conversation with the camera was all the right punctuation for Persuasion's many moods.