Source identified
Read & copy the quotation
“We live at home, quiet, confined, and our feelings prey upon us.”
- Source
- Persuasion
- Date
- 1818
- Local voice
- Fictional character · Anne Elliot
Meaning of “We live at home, quiet, confined, and our…”
Anne links emotional persistence partly to social circumstance: restricted movement and occupation can leave fewer external demands to interrupt sustained feeling.
Where does it come from?
Persuasion, Chapter XXIII, Project Gutenberg #105. Anne Elliot says this to Captain Harville while contrasting women’s domestic confinement with men’s professions, business, travel and continual occupation. It is a historically situated fictional argument, not a modern mental-health claim.
Why the local voice matters
Anne says this to Captain Harville in Chapter XXIII while contrasting women’s restricted domestic circumstances with men’s professions, movement and occupation.
