When Netflix announced its adaptation of Jane Austen's Persuasion, fans of the novel were "half agony, half hope". Directed by leading theatre director Carrie Cracknell and starring Dakota Johnson, Netflix's Persuasion tells the story of 27-year-old 'spinster' Anne Elliot, a woman with "claims of birth, beauty, and mind", as she reconnects with Captain Wentworth, the suitor she was persuaded to …