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• Anne Elliot: Middle daughter of Baronet, Sir Walter Elliot of Kellynch Hall, she is treated as the family drudge by her father, and older and younger sisters. Eight years before, when she was 19 years old, Anne had fallen in love with Wentworth before his naval promotions, and was encouraged to break her engagement by her godmother, Lady Russell.
• Frederick Wentworth: Newly retired naval Captain who has had a very successful career, but now the Napoleonic wars are over, and his ship, Laconia, has been decommissioned, and he is on half-pay and visiting his sister and her husband who have just rented financially distressed Sir Walter Elliot's Kellynch hall. Eight years before he proposed to Miss Anne Elliot and was accepted, then refused.
• Mrs. Elsa Harville: Wife of Capt Wentworth's best Lieutenant, Timothy Harville, who was wounded in battle. A gentle, capable and loving wife and nurse.
• Mrs. Charles Musgrove, aka Lady Mary Elliot Musgrove: The overly proud and status conscious third daughter of Baronet, Sir Walter Elliot of Kellynch Hall. Married to the son of the next wealthiest and most prominent family in the area. Always fault-finding and complaining. Her norse is always out of joint from perceived slights.
• James Benwick: Former First Lieutenant to Captain Wentworth, newly appointed Captain of the sloop, Grappler. Engaged to Fanny Harville, sister of Timothy Harville. An educated, solitary man with a love of poetry
• Richard Musgrove, aka "Damnable Dick": son of squire Musgrove. Had been an impossibly troublesome and inept midshipman for six months under Captain Wentworth
• Beresford: naval captain found of guns, dogs and women who teases Wentworth of being afraid of women
• Edward Wentworth: Older brother of Sophy and Frederich. A curate of stern disposition, served at one time in Somersetshire, now in Shropshire. Newly married.
• Mrs. Sophia Wentworth Croft: Sister of Edward and Frederick Wentworth, married to Admiral Craft and has sailed the seas with him.
• Louisa Musgrove: Younger daughter of Squire Musgrove. Young. flirtatious, bold. Knows her own mind
• Henrietta Musgrove: Older daughter of Squire Musgrove. Young, demure, shy. walking out with cousin Charles Hayter
• Gilmore Craig: Friend of Wentworth's who is pursuing the niece of Admiral Hammond, who does not approve of their courtshib, because Gilmore owns warehouses and is not a naval officer
• Michaelson: Wentworth's steward on the Laconia
• Sir Walter Elliot: Proud baronet of Kellynch Hall of Somersetsgire. Widower with three daughters, the oldest and youngest as pompous and insufferable as he is. Financially embarrassed, hes has retrenched and moved to Bath with his older daughter, and let Kellynch Hall to the Crofts
• Lady Russell: Widow, godmother to Miss Anne Elliot, her deceased friend's daughter. Resides in the Kellynch Lodge, a half mile from Kellynch Hall. Great influece on the Elliot family
• Timothy Harville: Capt Wentworth's best Lieutenant, Timothy Harville, who was wounded in battle
• Mrs. Bale: runs a boarding house
• Harkness: servant at Kellynch Hall who becomes Wenrworth's valet
• Charles Hayter: Cousin of the Musgroves. A serious, studious young mab who dotes on Henrietta Musgrove. Winthrop farm.
• Jack: Add a description of this character.
• Miss Anne Hammond: Niece of Admiral Hammond, admired by Gilmore Craig
• Eyerly: Wentworth's coxswain on the Laconia

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• “I have come to the conclusion that truly, in your heart, you are a Romantic." ... At the word "Romantic," the Captain bristled...So, at the core of my being you think I am one of those wretched, dismal fellows who goes about badly dressed and long faced, spouting turgid poetry? Thank you so much." "No, no, not that sort of man, but one who believes there can be true and equal love between men and women.”

  Gilmore Craig to Captain Wentworth

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• Laconia: the frigate that was Captain Wentworth's last command. After the war it was decommisioned
• Portsmouth: English port city
• Uppercross: The village in Somersetshire where the Musgroves reside
• Kellynch Hall: the estate of Sir Walter Elliot in Somersetshire
• Cobb: A stone jetty in Lyme, U.K.
• Somerset: non-metropolitan county in south western England, east of Cornwall and Devon
• Monkford: Small crossroads where Edward Wentworth was cleric years before

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106 - "How much did might he remember of his previous visit." omit either did or might - author's decision. Following sentence employs "might" twice.
113 - Wentworth decided that any knucklehead thick enough (add "to") get himself disrated for fighting the very day a new captain took command deserved to be on the bottom of any pile.
244 - Anne Elliott says: "I am most happy to remain. I have been wishing to be allowed to do so. A bed on the floor of Louisa's room will be sufficient for her, if Mrs. Harville would but think so." Change "her" to "me"

Series & Lists edit see section history

Followed by For You Alone .

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Susan Kaye (Author)

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• Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
• Dewey: 813

Notes for Parents edit see section history

Suitable for teens interested in Jane Austen

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• Books › Romance › Historical
• Books › Romance › Regency
• Books › Literature & Fiction

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