Volume 1 Chapter 2

Summary
In this chapter Mr. Shepard is introduced and more insight is given on the relationship between Lady Russel and the Elliot family. Sir Walter Elliot decides to leave Kellynch-hall and move to Bath, much to Anne's dismay as she wanted to stay in the area of Kellynch-hall in a smaller house. Sir Walter Elliot's pride however, was not fit for this so Elizabeth, Sir Walter and Lady Russel decide the family should move to Bath. Lady Russel encourages the family to move to bath because she thought Anne needed to expand her social horizons and Elizabeth needed her friendship with Mrs. Clay interrupted.

Family in I.2
After Sir Elliot's wife's death, Lady Russell essentially replaces her as advisor to Sir Elliot. Lady Russell pushes the family towards moving to Bath to fufil her own wishes. She wants Anne close enough to visit but also she believed that, "a larger society would imrove [Anne's spirits and] she [wants] her to be more known"(15). Anne herself wants to stay in the Kellynch-Hall area in a smaller house. Lady Russel also wants to sever Elizabeth's friendship with Mrs. Clay, who Lady Russel thinks is "a very dangerous companion" and thus a "friendship quite out of place" (17)(16). These actions show how Lady Russel manipulates the family members' actions to fit her idea of proper comportment. She does not do this out of malice but out of genuine concern for their well being.