Persuasion is the very first of Austen's novels to feature as being the central character a woman who, with the criteria of the time, is past the main bloom of youth. British literary critic Robert P Irvine writes that Persuasion "is in many ways a radical departure" from Austen's before https://kameronpuzcg.blogunteer.com/25091597/persuasion-can-be-fun-for-anyone