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  1. The project is funded by a Ready To Learn grant (PR/AWARD No. U295A150003, CFDA No. 84.295A) provided by the Department of Education to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Meet Elinor. The curious bunny rabbit that goes on wonderful adventures of discovery with her friends.

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  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. Mrs. Dashwood is a lucky woman. She's fortunate enough to have had a husband to take care of her, then to have Elinor, a practical daughter, who took up the mantle of responsibility. She's kind of a silly woman – she's sweet and loving, and is a pretty good mom when it comes to coddling her daughters, but overall, she's not the most pragmatic ...

  4. 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 ...

  5. 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.

  6. John Dashwood. The mother of Elinor, Marianne, and Margaret. Mrs. Dashwood is a kind, caring mother, who looks out for her daughters and tries to see them into happy, comfortable lives with good husbands, but is not as scheming as Mrs. Ferrars and is generally more interested in her daughters’ happiness than in their financial fortunes.

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  8. 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 ...