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Home › | Publications › | Essay Contest Winning Entries › | 2018 Essay Contest

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2018 Essay Contest

Winning Entries

Topic: Faith, Hope, and Charity in Persuasion

Faith, hope, and charity are featured themes in Jane Austen’s novel Persuasion. Discuss how possessing or lacking these qualities affects a character's behavior and drives the plot. You may focus on one quality or examine the interplay of two or all three. You may include more than one character in your discussion.

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HIGH SCHOOL DIVISION

“Her Future Sunshine”: The Blossoming of Faith, Hope, and Charity in the Life of Anne Elliot

Monica Colon

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Virtue, Character, and the Fate of the Three Elliot Sisters

Beätrice C. Crist

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Living Amongst “Heartless Elegance” or “Bewitching Hospitality”: Charity Fostered or Forbidden by Environment in Persuasion

Kathryn G. Kowalski

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COLLEGE/UNIVERSITY DIVISION

Faithfully, Yours: Womanhood, Faith, and “A Woman’s Portion” in Persuasion

Katherine A. Avery

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When the “Half Agony, Half Hope” Become One: The Experiential Dynamics of Hope’s Ambivalence, Precariousness, and Intimacy

Fatma Shahin

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“Hope Springs Eternal”: Faith, Hope, Charity, and Suffering in Persuasion

Rachel Zimmerman

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GRADUATE SCHOOL DIVISION

Charity Begins at Home: Empowerment through Giving and Making in Persuasion

Jennifer E. Tinonga

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“Fearless in thankfulness”: Anne Elliot’s Narrative Despair and Narrative Hope

Leta M. Sundet

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“These Three Remain”: a Trilogy of Virtues in Persuasion

Annie L. Lewkowicz

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ESSAY CONTEST COMMITTEE

Meg Levin, Chair
Carol Moss

ESSAY CONTEST JUDGES

High School Division

Caroline Austin-Bolt
University of Texas
Dallas, TX

Adrienne Berg
Woods Charter School
Chapell Hill, NC

Barbara Burnham
University of Texas
Austin, TX

Courtney O. Carlisle
University of Texas
Dallas, TX

Jessica Connolly
Trinity College
Dublin, Ireland

Marjean Cockran
Enterprise State Community College
Enterprise, AL

Becky Dolin
Graham School University of Chicago
Chicago, IL

Susan Durst
Boise Public Schools (retired)
Boise, ID

Kathleen Flynn

Nora Glickstein
McMaster University
Toronto, ON

Keiko Parker
University of British Columbia
Vancouver, BC

Deanna Parsi

Deborah Roush

Maria Spray
School for Advanced Research
Santa Fe, NM

Amy Stallings
College of William and Mary
Williamsburg, VA

Alisa Thomas
Toccoa Falls College
Toccoa Falls, GA

Lisa Tyler
Sinclair Community College
Dayton, OH

Karin Wiberg
University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA

College/University Division

Monica Alvarez
Trinity School
New York, NY

Lety Banks
University of California
San Diego, CA

Pauline Beard
Pacific University (emerita)
Forest Grove, OR

Rosa Beyer
University of Chicago
Chicago, IL

Rachel Brownstein
Graduate Center,
City University of New York, NY

Susan Cotellesse
Northeast Lakeview College
Universal City, TX

Sarah Horowitz
Haverford College
Haverford, PA

Elaine Toia
Rockland Community College
State University of New York
Suffern, NY

Kathleen Urda
Bronx Community College
City University of New York
New York, NY

Graduate School Division

Deborah Knuth Klenck
Colgate University
Hamilton, NY

Pat Michaelson
University of Dallas
Dallas, TX

Juliette Wells
Goucher College
Baltimore, MD

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