Now an ignored and faded spinster, she follows her financially stricken family from their home, only to be reintroduced to the now successful and wealthy Captain Frederick Wentworth. With their ...

Jane Austen’s 'Persuasion' still resonates today with its exploration of love, regret, and emotional resilience—proof that ...

In Persuasion, hopeless romantic Anne Elliot (Dakota Johnson) is persuaded by her family to break off her engagement to inconsequential naval officer Captain Frederick Wentworth (Cosmo Jarvis).

Richmond's West End Branch Library will host a showing of the 1995 movie adaptation of "Persuasion" on Wednesday afternoon.