I am a big Jane Austen fan. Sense and Sensibility is actually by far my favorite book AND film adaption, but this film examines the foundation for Jane’s views on men, women, money and society. It is a very sorrowful film with lovely and tender overtones. Her writing style is so in touch with the motivations behind the human heart, specifically the female heart, but to some degree the truth of love as a whole when faced with the challenge of duty and class.
Every time I watch a film based during this time period – which i love btw, i am reminded how lucky i am to live in a time when a woman can make her own way without the permission of anyone. Imagining someone like Oprah living back in this time… she would have been non-present, or a servant at best… how many women of that time were talented, smart and had major contributions that were never realized due to status and social restraints? we will never know…
An interest fact for someone as romantic as Jane, is that she never married…
Here are some Jane Austen Facts below:
| Place of Birth | Steventon, Hampshire, England |
| Known for | Exploring themes of marriage, family, and everyday country life in witty novels with strong heroines |
| Milestones | 1790s Began writing brief fictional pieces, including the burlesque ‘Love and Freindship’ [sic] and the short novel Lady Susan |
| 1804 Began writing The Watsons around this time | |
| 1811 Published, at her own expense, the novel Sense and Sensibility, which was based on a story she began in the late 1790s titled ‘Elinor and Marianne’ | |
| 1813 Published the novel Pride and Prejudice, the story of the Bennet sisters’ pursuit of marriage | |
| 1814 Published the novel Mansfield Park | |
| 1816 Published the novel Emma | |
| 1817 Began work on the novel Sanditon, which she did not finish before her death | |
| 1818 The novels Persuasion and Northanger Abbey were published posthumously. | |
| Quote | ‘It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.’ Pride and Prejudice, ch. 1 (1813) |
| Did You Know | Austen received little formal education, was tutored at home by her father, and lived with her family throughout her life. |
| Austen’s novels were originally published anonymously. | |
| Austen never left the south of England and had little or no contact with the literary community of London. | |
| Although her work received positive
Take a Jane Austen Quiz: http://www.funtrivia.com/flashquiz/index.cfm?qid=251684 |
Makes sense you would love that.
I consider that a compliment and go to sleep now!