About this episode

The episode introduces The Elliots in Chapter 1 of Persuasion and discusses themes of moral compass, beauty, and grief, featuring guest Dr. Amy King.

We meet The Elliots in Chapter 1 of Persuasion and Vanessa and Stephanie Paulsell introduce our themes for this season. Every week we'll be discussing Anne's moral compass, and where we see ridiculousness, beauty, and grief in the chapter. This week, Dr. Amy King joins us at the end of the episode to help us understand how the word 'bloom' is operating in this book. If you want to be part of the conversation, you can join us for our weekly class which will follow each episode of the podcast. This class also free for our $50/month patrons on our Patreon, which you can join here . --- Hot and Bothered is a Not Sorry Production Find us at our website | Follow us on Instagram If we give you butterflies, consider supporting us on Patreon ! On Patreon we have more great romance content including a bonus conversation between Vanessa and Stephanie. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

People in this episode

Hosts: Vanessa Paulsell, Stephanie Paulsell

Guest: Dr. Amy King

Topics covered

• The Elliots
• Anne's moral compass
• ridiculousness
• beauty
• grief
• bloom

Keywords

• Persuasion
• The Elliots
• moral compass
• bloom
• grief
• beauty
• Vanessa Paulsell
• Stephanie Paulsell

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Not Sorry Productions

Books & works: Persuasion

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