Persuasion Poison Ivy all in a new format

all in a new format

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Victoria Glass charts the delicious range of some of our much-loved classics with a chocolatey twist

She considers the contributions of the first female MPs

He had to leave all his friends behind in Berlin

Persuasion Poison Ivy all in a new formatA powerful portrait of grief triumphantly overcome, Persuasion is Austen's most passionate work: more than any previous novel, it concentrates on the intense inner life of the heroine. It opens with Anne Elliot lamenting lost love in a painful reversal of the courtship novel; it then transforms into a rapturous romantic comedy. Against a dysfunctional gentry family corroded by snobbishness, the novel pits professional self made naval men marked by