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2. Sense and Sensibility - Wikipedia

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   A common theme of Austen criticism has been on the legal aspects of society and the family, particularly wills, the rights of first and second sons, and lines of inheritance. Gene Ruoff's book Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility explores these issues in an extended discussion of the novel. The first two chapters deal extensively with the ...

3. Colonel Brandon - Wikipedia

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   Hastings had been rumoured to be the biological father of Eliza de Feuillide, who was Jane Austen's cousin. Linda Robinson Walker argues that Hastings "haunts Sense and Sensibility in the character of Colonel Brandon": both left for India at age seventeen; both may have had illegitimate daughters named Eliza; both participated in a duel. [10]

4. Jane West (novelist) - Wikipedia

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   West is best known today as the author of a novel that served as a source text for Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility (1811). Her novel A Gossip's Story (1796), like Austen's novel, features two sisters, one full of rational sense and the other of romantic, emotive sensibility. West's romantic sister shares the same name as Austen's: Marianne.

5. Theatreworks presents “Sense & Sensibility” at Ent Center

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   (COLORADO SPRINGS) — Jane Austen lovers can treat themselves to a night in the Regency era as Theatreworks presents a new production of Sense & Sensibility through Sunday, Dec. 22 at the ...

6. Kate Winslet remembers fainting on the set of 'Sense and ...

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   But what might otherwise seem like a tame film production, 1995’s Ang Lee-directed Jane Austen adaptation Sense and Sensibility, had its treacherous moments for the popular British actress.

7. John Willoughby - Wikipedia

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   John Willoughby is a fictional character in Jane Austen's 1811 novel Sense and Sensibility. He is described as being a handsome young man with a small estate, but has expectations of inheriting his aunt's large estate. He is in love with Marianne Dashwood, who is also a character in the novel. John Willoughby by Chris Hammond, 1899

8. Elinor Dashwood - Wikipedia

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   Elinor Dashwood is a fictional character and the protagonist of Jane Austen's 1811 novel Sense and Sensibility.. In this novel, Austen analyses the conflict between the opposing temperaments of sense (logic, propriety, and thoughtfulness, as expressed in Austen's time by neo-classicists), and sensibility (emotion, passion, unthinking action, as expressed in Austen's time by romantics).

9. Edward Ferrars - Wikipedia

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   Edward Ferrars is a fictional character in Jane Austen's 1811 novel Sense and Sensibility. He is the elder of Fanny Dashwood's two brothers and forms an attachment to Elinor Dashwood. As first described in Sense and Sensibility: "Edward Ferrars was not recommended to their good opinion by any peculiar graces of person or address. He was not ...