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A feminist art of Persuasion
PAUL FOLEY sees an updated version of Jane Austen’s classic novel which challenges sexist attitudes towards women today

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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