Who is the heroine of Jane Austin’s Persuasion?
Persuasion (2007 film) Persuasion (2007 film) Persuasion is a 2007 British television film adaptation of Jane Austen's novel "Persuasion". It was directed by Adrian Shergold and the screenplay was written by Simon Burke. Sally Hawkins stars as the protagonist Anne Elliot, while Rupert Penry-Jones plays Frederick Wentworth. Eight years prior to the film's beginning, Anne was persuaded to reject Wentworth's proposal of marriage. Now 27 and unmarried, Anne re-encounters Wentworth, who has made his fortune in the Napoleonic Wars and is looking for a wife—anyone but Anne, whom he has not forgiven for rejecting him all those years ago. "Persuasion" was one of
Jane Withers a child actress. Withers was the heroine of two novels, "Jane Withers and the Hidden Room" (1942, by Eleanor Packer) and "Jane Withers and the Phantom Violin", (1943, by Roy J. Snell), published by Whitman Publishing Company, where "the heroine has the same name and appearance as the famous actress but has no connection ... it is as though the famous actress has stepped into an alternate reality in which she is an ordinary person." However, in 1944's "Jane Withers and the Swamp Wizard" (1944, by Kathryn Heisenfelt), "the heroine is identified as a famous actress". The stories were probably