That didn’t exactly change with the release of Northanger Abbey and Persuasion, which were credited to “the author of ‘Pride and Prejudice,’ ‘Mansfield-Park,’ &c.” But they also contained a “biographical notice of the author,” widely believed to have been written by Henry, which revealed her identity. While it’s a bit of a misconception that Jane Austen was totally anonymous throughout her career, it is true that the works published during her lifetime didn’t mention her by name. Lilly Library, Indiana University, Wikimedia Commons // Public DomainĪbout five months after Austen’s death, her brother Henry and sister Cassandra released her two as-yet-unpublished finished novels, Persuasion and Northanger Abbey, as one four-volume publication that hit shelves on December 20, 1817. It was published posthumously-but not exactly anonymously. Austen had another novel in the works at the time- Sanditon-but Persuasion remains her final finished one. “I have a something ready for Publication, which may perhaps appear about a twelvemonth hence,” she wrote to her niece Fanny in March 1817.īut that summer, on July 18, the author passed away from what may have been Addison’s disease or Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Though she didn’t make any actual plans to publish the novel, we do know that she considered it in good enough shape to do so. Persuasion was the last of these: Austen penned the first draft between August 8, 1815, and July 18, 1816, and completed her revisions less than a month later. Such was not the case with Persuasion, Emma, or Mansfield Park, which were all written and released in the 1810s. Persuasion was Jane Austen’s last finished novel.Īusten wrote the first drafts of Pride and Prejudice, Northanger Abbey, and Sense and Sensibility in the 1790s and then revised them for publication in the 1810s. Here are 10 facts about the book and its lasting cultural influence. But to many, Anne Elliot and Captain Wentworth’s tale of love lost and found is one of the author’s most poignant works. Persuasion might not be quite as well-known as Pride and Prejudice, Emma, or other Jane Austen novels.
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