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• Books similar to those by Edith Wharton and Jennifer Donnelly
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Persuasion
By Jane Austen
F AUSTEN
The romance between Captain Wentworth and Anne, the daughter of Sir Walter Elliot, seems doomed because of the young man's family connections and lack of wealth.

The Red Necklace
By Sally Gardner
YA F GARDNER
In the late eighteenth-century, Sido, the twelve-year-old daughter of a self-indulgent marquis, and Yann, a fourteen-year-old Gypsy orphan raised to perform in a magic show, face a common enemy at the start of the French Revolution.

Jellicoe Road
By Melina Marchetta
YA F MARCHETT
Abandoned by her drug-addicted mother at the age of eleven, high school student Taylor Markham struggles with her identity and family history at a boarding school in Australia.