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  1. 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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  2. 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 ...

  3. 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 ...

  4. 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.

  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. Feb 20, 2021 · Volume 1. Old Mr. Dashwood of Norland Park in Sussex and his heir, his nephew Henry Dashwood, have died. Henry married twice. By his first marriage, he has a son, John. John and his four-year-old son, Henry, are in their own right wealthy and by a provision in old Dashwood’s will, they are the heirs to his estate.

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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 ...

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