Perfectly Persuasion

Striving to always be the half hope part of the equation by posting any and all things Persuasion. Most posts queued.

[herheartwasintherightplace]

On the dock, Persuasion 2007.

[herheartwasintherightplace]

Persuasion 2007

[minhana26]

"I am half agony, half hope."

- Persuasion (1995)

[jaeausten]

I will not allow it to be any more man's nature than women's to be inconstant, or to forget those they love or have loved. Let me observe that all histories are against you. All stories, prose and verse.

[azyrl]

[fawnilu]

It's been a tough eight and a half years ❤️‍🩹

@janeuary-month

[janeaustentextposts]

[storygirl16-deactivated20191210]

Persuasion meets ‘Back to December’ Part 2

[mrdarcysdadbod]

I picked up another one of those "Jane Austen heroine solves a murder" books but this one is about Emma which is maybe the most correct pick for Murder Solving Austen Heroine. Anyway here's my list in order of most to least likely to (try and) solve a murder:

Catherine Morland - not only did she try and solve a murder, she invented a murder just so she could solve it. Iconic. Catherine would leap at the chance to solve an ACTUAL murder that she knew for SURE happened. Whether she's successful depends entirely on how closely the crime followed the plot of the average Regency CSI episode. Either she gets it in one or makes ten wrong guesses in a row. RIP Cathy you would've been the true crime girlie of all time

Emma Woodhouse - she's the smartest prettiest nosiest bitch in Highbury she has appointed herself lead detective (Harriet is the junior detective taking notes and gasping at the correct times) and she Will get to the Bottom of This. Sets up a dramatic reveal to accuse completely the wrong person, but in a way that lets someone else (probably Knightley or Jane Fairfax) figure out who the actual murderer was.

Lizzie Bennet - depends on 1) who died and 2) where. If there's any possibility Lydia did it she does NOT want to know and will interfere with the investigation. If it doesn't affect her personally she wants to know what's going on but is minding her business about it. If it affects her personally she's actually probably the most effective crime solver of the lot presuming she and Darcy can work together (if they're at odds her beef obscures her intellect) (i have not read death comes to pemberly nobody bring it up thank u)

Marianne Dashwood - honestly more likely to be, like, a witness or somehow involved with the victim and get accused of a crime of passion. I think she could figure it out to clear her name but she has to work around Elinor being like LET THE POLICE DO THEIR JOBS.

Anne Elliot - witnessed the whole thing bc the killer didn't notice her in the room. Fortunately Wentworth is willing to listen to her and it gets solved quickly.

Fanny Price - witnessed the whole thing bc the killer didn't notice her but nobody listens to her except the killer who then kidnaps her to tie up loose ends. Edmund rescues her and when he's like "why would you come after Fanny" and the killer's like "well she saw the whole thing" they're all like "Fanny why wouldn't you say anything" and she just stares into the camera like. Ok.

Elinor Dashwood - not her circus NOT her monkey also she's impeding the investigation bc the victim was Willoughby and she helped Colonel Brandon hide the body.

[persuasionperfection]

The party from Uppercross passing down by the now deserted and melancholy looking rooms, and still descending, soon found themselves on the sea-shore; and lingering only, as all must linger and gaze on a first return to the sea, who ever deserved to look on it at all,

Chapter 11, Persuasion, Jane Austen

[currahee]

[currahee]

JANE AUSTEN FAVOURITES:  Favourite Austen Hero: Captain Frederick Wentworth (Persuasion): ‘A man does not recover from such a passion… with such a woman… He ought not. He does not.’

[currahee]

“I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which had not something to say upon woman’s inconstancy. Songs and proverbs, all talk of woman’s fickleness. But perhaps you will say, these were all written by men… Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands.”

[randomkiwibirds]

spoke so softly, you couldn’t hear me over the sound of words that we spoke but now we misquote, slowly unwound

[effulgentpoet]

endless list of favorites:

PERSUASION (2007)

Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever. I offer myself to you again with a heart even more your own than when you almost broke it, eight years and a half ago. Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you. 

[lady-arryn]

You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever. PERSUASION (1995) dir. Roger Michell

[dearemma]

I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.