#sense and sensibility edit

[favorite-characters]

𝕊𝕖𝕟𝕤𝕖 𝕒𝕟𝕕 𝕊𝕖𝕟𝕤𝕚𝕓𝕚𝕝𝕚𝕥𝕪

Alan Rickman as ᴄᴏʟᴏɴᴇʟ ʙʀᴀɴᴅᴏɴ (dir. Ang Lee • 1995)

[dirbenaffleck]

ALAN RICKMAN as COL. BRANDON Sense and Sensibility ‧1995 ‧ Dir. Ang Lee

[gifharbor]

What strange creatures men are. What do they want from us? Perhaps they see us not as people but as playthings, Elinor. — SENSE & SENSIBILITY (2008)

[didanagy]

SENSE AND SENSIBILITY (1995)

dir. ang lee

[m-a-salter]

Period Drama Appreciation Week 2023 | Day 1: Favorite adaptation | Sense and Sensibility (1995), directed by Ang Lee, screenplay by Emma Thompson

[edelweiss-maiden]

sense and sensibility and fifty shades of green (1995) dir. ang lee + stills that look like paintings

[stingrayextraordinaire]

Literature Moodboards // Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!

(requested by @kulakova)

[bethanydelleman]

So... I don't know if it's a bit unfair, but I personally have trouble reducing women to "who is the best in bed" but I have no problem doing it for men. Maybe because of a long troubled history of women being perceived as sex objects. Also, Jane Austen's heroines are aged 17-27, and some of those are too young. I am also really into positive experiences of sex. So here is what I shall do instead but in all fairness:

After all, enthusiasm seems to be the best asset a woman can bring to the bedroom! Celebrating women lusting after the love of their life.

Here is the male poll if you haven't voted there yet.

[whenthegoldrays]

it was rare, you remember it

for @inardentdaylight

[weepynymph]

They're just so Austen

Part Two (the sad one)

Part One Part Three

[favorite-characters]

𝕊𝕖𝕟𝕤𝕖 𝕒𝕟𝕕 𝕊𝕖𝕟𝕤𝕚𝕓𝕚𝕝𝕚𝕥𝕪

Hugh Grant as ᴇᴅᴡᴀʀᴅ ғᴇʀʀᴀʀs (dir. Ang Lee • 1995)

[dirbenaffleck]

Sense and Sensibility 1995 ‧ Dir. Ang Lee

[prismaticxchromatics]

Sense & Sensibility (1995) Director: Ang Lee

“The sooner [Marianne] becomes acquainted with the ways of the world, the better.” “I knew a lady very like your sister - the same impulsive sweetness of temper - who was forced into, as you put it, a better acquaintance with the world. The result was only ruination and despair. Do not desire it, Miss Dashwood.”

[lesbienneanarchiste]

Went to the new BooksAMillion grand opening and not to sound dramatic and pretentious but *overstimulated on the verge of a meltdown voice* I think maybe literacy and modern publishing was a mistake

[uwmspeccoll]

Milestone Monday

On this day, October 30, 1811, Jane Austen’s (1775-1817) Sense and Sensibility was published anonymously as written “by a Lady.” Austen's brother negotiated the printing with publisher Thomas Egerton who agreed to publish the book on commission at Austen’s financial risk. With presumed great relief, Sense and Sensibility received favorable reviews and the first printing of 750 copies sold out in 1813. A second printing was run later that year, and the novel has been in continuous publication ever since.  

In honor of Sense and Sensibility’s publication anniversary, we’re looking at both of the Special Collections copies! The first was published in 1856 by Richard Bentley (1794-1871). Bently purchased the copyrights to Austen’s work after her death and began publishing her novels as part of his Standard Novel Series in 1833. He hired illustrator Ferdinand Pickering (c. 1811-1882) to create an engraved frontispiece as illustration for each novel. This was the first time Austen’s work was released in collected editions and the first time her novels were illustrated.  

Sense and Sensibility has since been illustrated many times over, shedding a contemporary light on Austen’s characters, including our second holding published by the Limited Editions Club. Limited Editions Club printed 1,500 copies of Sense and Sensibility in 1957 for its members. It includes a contemporary introduction by novelist Stella Gibbons and distinct pen and ink illustrations by Caldecott Medal honoree Helen Sewell. The edition was designed by Joseph Blumenthal and printed by him at the Spiral Press in New York. Our copy is from the collection of long-standing LEC member Austin Fredric Lutter of Waukesha, Wisconsin.   

View other Milestone Monday posts here.

– Jenna, Special Collections Graduate Intern 

[were-all-just-stories]

PERIOD DRAMA APPRECIATION WEEK 2023

(Part 1/2) Day 4: Favorite Era — The Regency Period (1811-1820*)

"And if it is a hallmark of Austen’s world that her heroines have extremely limited decisions to make, that may after all be the perfect metaphor for a generation in their 20s and 30s who see their life choices equally limited – not by marriage prospects, but by a set of economic circumstances that seem just as uncontrollable and arbitrary. In the end the stories written by Austen and by her many progeny are about women surrounded by artificial, sternly judgmental and deeply constraining patriarchal systems, who struggle to break through them to find human connection, and love. That struggle, as they say, continues." — Charlotte Higgins, 'A look under the bonnet: why are we still so obsessed with the Regency era?'

[Media shown: Pride and Prejudice (2005), Sense and Sensibility (1995), and Bridgerton (2020—)]

*although the official years of the Regency are only the nine years the Prince Regent ruled, many historians expand this era to include the years between 1795-1837.