Abstract：Persuasion is the last but classic novel of Jane Austen, a 19 th century famous British novelist.Austen's skilled techniques of language and writing is fully revealed in Persuasion, through which inwardly conveys Austen's construction of female discourse authority between lines. Taking Austen's famous novels like Pride and Prejudice, Persuasion as examples, scholars tend to explore Austen's feminine awareness from point of view, characterization and free indirect style. Based on speech and thought representation in Persuasion, this paper aims to offer a new perspective to probe into Austen's female discourse authority, and it turns out that exploring from speech and thought representation is highly workable, which can offer a certain theoretical basis for further researches.

Keyword：female discourse authority;Persuasion;speech and thought representation;