Quietly Yours

Album: Persuasion (Soundtrack from the Netflix Film) (2022)
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  • Jane Austen completed her first draft of Persuasion in July 1816, aged 40. Written in a cottage of Elizabethan origin at Chawton in southern England, she based many of her characters on local Chawton folk. In early 1816, Austen had fallen ill with what many biographers believe to be Addison's Disease, and by the middle of that year, her decline was unmistakable. She completed Persuasion while propped up on two chairs.

    Austen wrote to her niece in March 1817, telling her she had a novel "which may appear about a twelvemonth hence." Sadly, Austen passed away on July 18, 1817, and John Murray published Persuasion, her last completed novel, posthumously on December 20, 1817.

    Birdy wrote "Quietly Yours" for Netflix' 2022 adaptation of Persuasion starring Dakota Johnson.
  • Persuasion recounts the story of Anne Elliot, who is "persuaded" by others to break her engagement with Navy Captain Frederick Wentworth because of his uncertain future. Anne cannot find another love like she had with Captain Wentworth, and when they cross paths again after a seven-year separation, she confronts her unfulfilled feelings for him.

    With the English novelist's storyline in mind, Birdy details the emotions of a love rekindled after a separation of many years. She sings of "quietly keeping hope in her heart" after breaking up with a romantic interest, and the "sweetest spring at my door" when he returns to her life.
  • Birdy wrote "Quietly Yours" solo and co-produced it with Rich Cooper (Lucy Rose, Rina Sawayama).

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