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Quotation from Persuasion by Jane Austen
“All the privilege I claim for my own sex (it is not a very enviable one; you need not covet it), is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone”
Persuasion, Vol. II, Ch. 11 (Ch. 23) (1817 text)
The climax of Anne's argument about constancy, overheard by Wentworth.
Citation: "All the privilege I claim for my own sex (it is not a very enviable one; you need not covet it), is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone" — Jane Austen, Persuasion, Vol. II, Ch. 11 (Ch. 23) (1817 text). (id persuasion-q5)
Portrait: CassandraAusten-JaneAusten(c.1810) hires, Cassandra Austen, Public domain.
