In the manor house Kellynch Hall lives 27-year-old Anne Elliot, the middle of three daughters of the widower Sir Walter Elliot. Her older sister Elizabeth is rather cold-hearted and full of arrogance. Mary, the youngest, who lives in nearby Uppercross as the wife of the staid Charles Musgrove, is snivelling and conceited. Anne is very different. Her character combines reason, decency and selflessness - virtues that sadly neither her father nor her sisters appreciate. Anne is therefore at the bo ...