It even appears she did not envision the title of the story as Persuasion there is speculation that the title of the novel was chosen by her brother Henry or her sister Cassandra. On the other hand, there is evidence that Austen did not have in mind such an explicit theme and variations. Certainly that theme is repeated several times, with vignettes within the story as variations on that theme. Readers of Persuasion might infer Jane Austen intended 'persuasion' as the working theme of the story. Persuasion is connected with Northanger Abbey not only by the fact that the two books were originally bound up in one volume and published together two years later, but also because both stories are set partly in Bath, a fashionable health resort with which Jane Austen was well acquainted, having lived there from 1801 to 1805. She died, aged 41, in 1817, but Persuasion was not published until 1818. She began it soon after she had finished Emma, completing it in August, 1816. Persuasion is Jane Austen's last completed novel.
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