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Lady Russell
Persuasion
Lady Russell loves Anne, but is very hung up on rank and proper background. This is "typical" of the age so it's not something you can really hold against her. It is completely the way a lady should have been at this time period.
The 2008 Masterpiece Theater version. She is great here, very intelligent, wise, caring, and cognizant of her duties. Yes, she is prejudiced, but in accordance with her class teachings.
With Anne
In the 1995 version she is a bit too interfering.
In the 1971 BBC version, Lady Russell is very much tamed down from the book. Her key message is always "I want you to be happy" without any sign at all that she really cares about rank or such. In the book she VERY much cares about those things. I think they made her a bit too sympathetic, too much like a doddering grandmother.
In this next image, Lady Russell talks with Sir Walter at the Bath home.
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