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Giveaway winner Announced for The Annotated Sense and Sensibility

Posted in Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen's Works, Reading Challenges, tagged , , , , , , , , on 16 June 2011 | 1 Comment »

37 of you left comments qualifying you for a chance to win a copy of The Annotated Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen, edited by David Shapard. The winner drawn at random is Jocelyn who left a comment on May 28th. Congratulations Jocelyn! To claim your prize, please contact me with your full name and address [...]

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Sense and Sensibility at the Book-It Repertory Theatre in Seattle – A Review

Posted in Jane Austen Adaptations, Jane Austen Stage Productions, Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen's Works, tagged , , , , , , on 14 June 2011 | 9 Comments »

“Happy, happy Elinor, you cannot have an idea of what I suffer.” “Do you call me happy, Marianne? Ah; if you knew! And can you believe me to be so while I see you so wretched!” – Sense and Sensibility, Chapter 29 Happiness and suffering, and the emotional extremes that cause it, is an important [...]

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Preview of Sense and Sensibility Stage Play at Book-It Rep in Seattle

Posted in Jane Austen Adaptations, Jane Austen Stage Productions, Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen's Works, tagged , , on 28 May 2011 | Leave a Comment »

We are very fortunate to have one of the nation’s premiere small theater companies right in our own backyard. For the last 20 years the Book-It Repertory Theater of Seattle has been exclusively adapting written work for the stage. Among the sixty plus world premier adaptations they have presented are stage productions of three Jane [...]

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Join Jane Austen Inside Her Novels at the Classroom Salon (via AustenBlog)

Posted in Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen's Works, tagged , , , on 15 May 2011 | 1 Comment »

Mags at AustenBlog shares news on a new beta website, Classroom Salon for Sense and Sensibility, by Carnegie Mellon University. The first lucky 50 Janeites to sign up get to participate, so make haste if you are interested in this innovative way to learn, share insights and discuss one of Jane Austen’s novels. Cheers, Laurel [...]

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Sense and Sensibility (1971) – Movie Review

Posted in Jane Austen Adaptations, Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen's Works, Sense & Sensibility Movies, tagged , , on 29 December 2009 | 13 Comments »

I was quite excited when the news hit the blogosphere that the elusive 1971 mini-series of Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility was being resurrected from the vaults and reissued by the BBC. It originally aired in the UK, but had never jumped the pond until this re-issue. Now, I think I know why.  If you [...]

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Happy Birthday Sense and Sensibility

Posted in Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen's Works, tagged , on 30 October 2009 | 7 Comments »

On this day in 1811, an advertisement for the novel Sense and Sensibility “By A Lady” appeared in the London newspaper The Star no. 7690. This was Jane Austen’s first published work and her entre into literary history.  Published by Thomas Egerton of the Military Library publishing house in London, it was priced at 15s [...]

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Sense and Sensibility: Marianne Dashwood – blushing maiden or feminist?

Posted in Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen's Works, tagged , , , , , on 28 January 2009 | 16 Comments »

Mrs. Jennings was a widow, with an ample jointure. She had only two daughters, both of whom she had lived to see respectably married, and she had now therefore nothing to do but marry all the rest of the world. In the promotion of this object, she was zealously active, as far as her ability [...]

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Jane Austen and the Seven Deadly Sins: Pride and Vanity

Posted in Jane Austen Inspired, Jane Austen's Emma, Jane Austen's Mansfield Park, Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen's Persuasion, Jane Austen's Pride & Prejudice, Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen's Works, tagged , , , , , on 10 December 2008 | 4 Comments »

Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Elliot’s character; vanity of person and of situation. He had been remarkably handsome in his youth; and, at fifty-four, was still a very fine man. Few women could think more of their personal appearance than he did; nor could the valet of any new made [...]

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