Persuasion influenced Bridget Jones

The second Bridget Jones novel, The Edge of Reason, is Persuasion the way the first is Pride and Prejudice, and Fielding has said so. Austen's plot supplies it: a woman talked out of the right man by people who claim to know better, years of regret handled as comedy, and a reunion engineered by a misunderstanding about somebody else's engagement. Filed MEDIUM rather than HIGH because it is a claim about one volume inside the series rather than about the whole of it.