Anne Elliot describes Lady Russell as “her excellent friend”, but is she really so excellent? Should readers pay more attention to Lady Russell’s “prejudices on the side of ancestry” than we might on a first reading of Jane Austen’s novel Persuasion? The lecture analyses & close reads a passage describing Lady Russell’s plans to assist Sir Walter Elliot in his “retrenchment”. “Herself the widow of only a knight, she gave the dignity of a baronet all its due.” Does Lady Russell’s social class consciousness mean that she gives too much “due” to Sir Walter Elliot and his entitled daughter Elizabeth Elliot? How does Lady Russell’s view contrast with Anne Elliot’s plans for Sir Walter Elliot’s economising? Analysis of class in Jane Austen’s novel Persuasion.
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