Persuasion (novel) - Allusions/references Within Other Works

Allusions/references Within Other Works

• Persuasion is featured in the 2006 movie The Lake House, and provides a thematic background for the lovers.
• Persuading Annie, a novel by Melissa Nathan, is a modern version of Persuasion
• Connivance, (ASIN B002ACZU1A), a novel by Helen Baker is a continuation of Persuasion in which clever Mrs Clay continues to charm both Sir Walter Elliot and Mr Elliot, his heir.
• Jane Austen in Scarsdale, a novel by Paula Marantz Cohen, is based on the plot of Persuasion. However, Cohen's novel stars Anne Ehrlich, a high school guidance counselor dealing with parents' and students' anxiety over college admissions.
• Persuasion is referenced in John Fowles's The French Lieutenant's Woman.
• The novel is referenced in 2004 novel The Jane Austen Book Club, by Karen Joy Fowler, which was later made into a film by the same name in 2007.
• Persuasion is quoted in the movie The Book Of Ruth which was made for TV in 2004. (The Book Of Ruth was originally a novel by Jane Hamilton.)
• The Family Fortune, a novel by Laurie Horowitz, is a modern version of Persuasion set in Boston, Massachusetts.
• Captain Wentworth's Diary by Amanda Grange is a parallel novel, showing the story from Wentworth's point of view.
• Persuade Me, a novel by Juliet Archer, is a modern version of Persuasion.
• For Darkness Shows the Stars, a novel by Diana Peterfreund, is a post-apocalyptic retelling of Persuasion.
• The plot of Helen Fielding's Bridget Jones, The Edge of Reason is loosely based on Persuasion