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A feminist art of Persuasion
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Persuasion at the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester
ANNE ELLIOTT, at the age of 27, is approaching the “years of danger.”
Having rejected a marriage proposal from the dashing but penniless naval officer Frederick Wentworth eight years earlier, she is rapidly facing the prospect of being left on the shelf.
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