This is the blurb from Paperblanks:
Jane Austen’s Persuasion (1818) is the author’s most biting and ironic work. In the novel, Austen gives us a satisfying love story while also turning a critical gaze on the kinds of persuasion enforced on young women. Here we have reproduced a rare surviving manuscript page from the story’s eleventh chapter.
I WAS hoping for something a bit more "authorial" than something so flowery but I guess it can't be helped. Persuasion is my favorite Austen novel, even while whichever novel of hers I am currently reading is always my "favorite", but it has held up to repeated readings and I see no chance of it ever falling out of favor. I do like the blue and gold a lot.
I was wondering about buying several of these and just using one after another, but upon actually seeing it, I think one flowery journal at a time is enough. Between the Pear Garden Journal and now this, I think I'm full up on flowery motifs. What I was hoping for was a Captain Wentworth holding a sword or something :-D
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