He “was the only person who ever really saw me," she sobs. When she learns that Wentworth has returned to the country as a wealthy Captain in the Navy, Anne takes to her bed. As in the novel, viewers first meet Anne aged seven-and-twenty, unforgivably single and still hopelessly in love with the dashing Frederick Wentworth, who she was persuaded to reject eight years ago. This Anne – portrayed by Dakota Johnson – is liable to make a fool of herself, prone to drinking and outwardly delights in the fall of her ridiculous family. Anne Eliot, the heroine of Jane Austen’s last and greatest novel, Persuasion, is described as possessing “an elegance of mind and sweetness of character”, something that seems to have been forgotten in Netflix’s new adaptation (available from Friday).
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