Head on over at Sarah Emsley’s website, where for the next several weeks she is celebrating Austen’s first published novel Sense and Sensibility!
You can read my “Secrets & Silence” post there [an edited repost from 2011 on Maria Grazia’s blog, with her permission]
I welcome your comments! Can you remember the first time you read Sense and Sensibility? What secret in the novel most surprised you?
**************
And there are other delightful / insightful posts to read:
Sisters and Sisterhood, by Emily Midorikawa and Emma Claire Sweeney
What About Margaret? Reading Sense and Sensibility with Fresh Eyes, by Finola Austin
Sense and Sensibility in my most need, by Heidi LM Jacobs
The Darkness of Sense and Sensibility, by Deborah Yaffe
Mysteries of the Human Heart in Austen’s Sense and Sensibility, by S.K. Rizzolo
Secrets and Silence in Sense and Sensibility, by Deb Barnum
At Home with Sense and Sensibility, by Lizzie Dunford
Jane Austen Talks to Mary Wollstonecraft, by Susan Allen Ford
Landscapes of the Mind and Map, by Hazel Jones
July 19: Isabelle de Montolieu’s Sense and Sensibility, by Peter Sabor
July 23: Prodigal Sons in Sense and Sensibility, by Joyce Kerr Tarpley
July 30: Time to Deliberate and Judge Edward Ferrars, by Deborah Knuth Klenck
August 2: Mrs. Dashwood’s Journey of Growth in Sense and Sensibility, by Vic Sanborn
August 6: Reading Sense and Sensibility Through the Framework of Birth Order, by Ria Harvie
August 9: Sense and Sensibility and Sewing, by Marilyn Smulders
August 13: On Sense and Sensibility and Lady Susan, by Anne Giardini
August 16: Of Sandwiches and Obligations, by Shawna Lemay
August 20: A Song Can Sing So Much, by Lori Mulligan Davis
August 23: Writing the Musical: Sense and Sensibility, by Paul Gordon
August 27: Re-Reading Sense and Sensibility, by Sandra Barry
August 30: Sense and Sensibility Hearkens Back to Its Origins, by Collins Hemingway
September 3: An Ill-disposed Narrator? Backhanded Insults in Sense and Sensibility, by Kathy Cawsey
September 6: The Real Romantic? Marianne Dashwood and Fanny Price by Theresa Kenney
***************
and More to come! Comments are most welcome!
Jane Austen in Vermont 