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  1. Elinor Dashwood Character Analysis. The oldest of the three Dashwood sisters. Elinor exemplifies sense, from the novel’s title. She is a rational thinker, who restrains her emotions, even when she suffers great hardship. Elinor is polite and always tries to say the right thing when around company.

  2. Elinor Dashwood is consigned to this role by the three other ladies in her family, Marianne, Margaret, and their mother. She's the only one willing to hold up a cautionary hand and tell everyone to hold off for a minute – and it's a good thing she's there to do so. Elinor is the voice of common sense in this crazy clan of excitable, romantic ...

  3. BBC One. Release. 1 January (2008-01-01) – 13 January 2008 (2008-01-13) Sense and Sensibility is a 2008 British television drama adaptation of Jane Austen 's 1811 novel Sense and Sensibility. The screenplay was written by Andrew Davies, who revealed that the aim of the series was to make viewers forget Ang Lee 's 1995 film Sense and Sensibility.

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  4. Sense & Sensibility (Chap. 3) Jane Austen. Track 3 on Sense and Sensibility. Mrs. Dashwood and her daughters remain at Norland Park for nearly six months. Mrs. Dashwood notices how Elinor has ...

  5. Sense and Sensibility is the first novel by the English author Jane Austen, published in 1811. It was published anonymously; By A Lady appears on the title page where the author's name might have been. It tells the story of the Dashwood sisters, Elinor (age 19) and Marianne (age 16½) as they come of age. They have an older half-brother, John ...

  6. Elinor represents "sense" in this novel. Only nineteen, she is her mother's counselor, able to influence her in the direction of prudence. When Mrs. Dashwood wants to leave Norland Park, it is Elinor who prevents her from acting too hastily. She induces Marianne to look at things in a calmer, more sensible light than is natural to her, as when ...

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  8. Trying to persuade Elinor to go, Mrs. Dashwood hinted that she might be able to spend time with Edward and the Ferrars family. Elinor said that she was indifferent toward the Ferrars family, which shocked Marianne. The Dashwoods finally decided to accept Mrs. Jennings invitation. Elinor was slightly dissatisfied, but Marianne was ecstatically ...

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