First Selection

The first selection for the book club is Jane Austen's Persuasion.
Persuasion was published posthumously by her brother Henry. She was not fully confident in her writing and found herself plaguing the texts to perfection before allowing them to be published, leaving this, Northanger Abbey and Love and Friendship to find publication after she left this earth. She grew up in a religious family; her father being the Rector through her childhood and into adulthood. She lived with her family throughout, and was never married herself.
While Jane Austen struggled through an illness that eventually took her life, she completed this final book. Persuasion is about a woman who has jilted her love and through the course of devastating family circumstances, is faced to encounter him years later and confront her feelings for him and he for her.
Enjoy this reading this month! We will be meeting 15 Sept 09 to discuss our perceptions and insights into this novel.