![]() ![]() Wentworth visits him, and begins to correspond with Abigail. The cruel captain of that ship flogs Jonathan instead, who is set ashore with his wounds. ![]() Jonathan is transferred to another ship, where he attempts to defend Dick Musgrove. The heroine of Celestial Persuasion is Miss Abigail Isaacs, a Jewish astronomer.Ībigail’s brother Jonathan served as a ship’s surgeon under Captain Wentworth. Mirta Ines Trupp, who wrote The Meyersons of Meryton, has written a prequel to Persuasion. “Here we are–at the mercy of the wind and the waves, and marauding pirates-strangers aboard a vessel, hurling our prayers and supplications to God and hoping that He, in His infinite wisdom, will equally hear the Jew, the Irishman, and the Anglo-Saxon and grant us peace.”–Mr. ![]()
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