Jane Austen's Mysteries

Time and again, we see a "W" villainous character rise in Jane Austen's novels: from George Wickham in Pride and Prejudice (1813) to John Willoughby in Sense and Sensibility (1811). But come to Austen's last finished novel, Persuasion (1816) and Captain Frederick Wentworth is a very sympathetic character. Is it a coincidence that Wentworth sounds a lot like Wordsworth, as in John Wordsworth, the tragic philosopher sailor lost at sea in 1805? Learn more about the mysteries of Jane Austen's W in this video.

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Anna, "Jane Austen's Colonial Connections", Austenized, https://austenised.blogspot.com/2011/07/jane-austens-colonial-connections.html (2011)

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Constance Pilgrim, Dear Jane (1971)

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