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Masterpiece’s Sense and Sensibility 2008 Revisited: Part Two

Posted in Masterpiece Classic, Sense & Sensibility Movies, tagged , , , , , , , , on 9 February 2009 | 4 Comments »

The rebroadcast of episode two of the 2008 mini-series Sense and Sensibility concluded last night on Masterpiece Classic and I am duly satisfied, not only with this production but with Jane Austen’s amazing story. You can catch up on my thoughts on episode one here. Sense and Sensibility has really grown on me over the years. It [...]

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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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Sense and Sensibility to be rebroadcast Sunday on Masterpiece Classic

Posted in Masterpiece Classic, Sense & Sensibility Movies, tagged , , , , , , , , on 27 January 2009 | 4 Comments »

Sense and Sensibility (2008) will be rebroadcast on February 1st and 8th at 9:00 pm on PBS. What a welcome respite after the tumultuous Victorian drama of Tess of the d’Urbervilles and Wuthering Heights on Masterpiece Classic this past month.  This adaptation by Andrew Davies was my favorite new production on The Complete Jane Austen [...]

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Jane Austen Illustrators: Heather Sleightholm

Posted in Jane Austen Illustrators, tagged , , , , , , , , , on 25 September 2008 | 2 Comments »

“It is very pretty,” said Mr. Woodhouse.”So prettily done! Just as your drawings always are, my dear. I do not know any body who draws so well as you do. The only thing I do not thoroughly like is, that she seems to be sitting out of doors, with only a little shawl over her [...]

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Jane Austen Illustrators: Imagining Sense and Sensibility

Posted in Jane Austen Illustrators, Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on 11 April 2008 | 1 Comment »

“Four years you have been engaged?” said she with a firm voice.   “Yes; and Heaven knows how much longer we may have to wait. Poor Edward! It puts him quite out of heart.” Then taking a small miniature from her pocket, she added, “To prevent the possibility of mistake, be so good as to look [...]

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Sense and Sensibility 2008: Cast Preview

Posted in Jane Austen Adaptations, Masterpiece Classic, Sense & Sensibility Movies, tagged , , , , , , on 28 March 2008 | 4 Comments »

    IMPROPRIETY “I am afraid,” replied Elinor, “that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.”   “On the contrary, nothing can be a stronger proof of it, Elinor; for if there had been any real impropriety in what I did, I should have been sensible of it at the time, [...]

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