She then spent three years at the Royal National Theatre as Assistant to the Associate Directors of New Writing and Classical Repertoire before joining the BBC as a Script Editor.
Persuasion is a very touching, dark novel.
It was published posthumously and it is always popularly supposed to be semi-autobiographical. While it is full of characteristic wit and humor, at the same time it has a tenderness and emotion that some of her other novels lack. There is something quite poignant about the fact that she was writing the novel in her last days when she was dying. It is a passionate love story and I cannot but believe that it reflects something from her past. Persuasion has never been made as a film before.