“And when does the opium trade pop up in her novels? Does it? Persuasion? Maybe I'm misremembering.”
Tyler Cowen, Host on Conversations with TylerPaula Byrne on Thomas Hardy's Women, Jane Austen's Humor, and Evelyn Waugh's Warmth
Persuasion
Jane Austen · 1789
A novel about a woman who encounters a former suitor years after she was persuaded to reject his marriage proposal.
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