A Sad, Persuaded, Girl

Poor Anne Eliot!

Persuaded against her better judgment not to marry the man that she loved...

Years later, she regrets her feeble-mindedness... but then the dashing Captain Frederick Wentworth come back to England!

Anne is a very sweet lass--doing everything that her father and older sister wish her to do. She does not often get her own way, but she is used to it.

Her only comfort is her godmother, who, unfortunately, was also the lady who persuaded her not to marry Captain Wentworth.

"She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older: the natural sequence of an unnatural beginning. "--Persuasion, Chapter 4.

I like Anne Eliot. She understands obedience to her father, but yet, she doesn't seem to have developed her own opinion (at least in public). But by the end of the story, she shows herself to be a stronger character, less easily persuaded by others, yet still as sweet and charming as ever...