Sense and Sensibility

Synopsis

"Jane Austen's classic tale of 19th-century etiquette and ethics chronicles the troubles and triumphs of the marriage-minded Dashwood sisters -- sensible oldest sibling Elinor (Emma Thompson) and her romantic younger sister, Marianne (Kate Winslet). While Marianne deftly charms two suitors (Alan Rickman and Greg Wise), Elinor must weather a circuitous courtship with an aspiring clergyman (Hugh Grant) of considerable reserve." [Netflix]

Genre

Historical

Released

1995

Location

British Isles

Period

Southwest England between 1792 and 1797; Written in about 1795 when she was only 19, Jane Austen was one of the first women to write with such power as to predict the new station of women to change the world in the 19th and 20th centuries.

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