Witty Romance · 1811
Sense and Sensibility
Two sisters, two hearts, one impossible inheritance.
by Jane Austen
What it's about
Elinor's restraint and Marianne's passion are tested when their family loses their home and the men they love prove harder to read than the weather.
A taste of it
“The family of Dashwood had long been settled in Sussex. Their estate was large, and their residence was at Norland Park, in the centre of their property, where, for many generations, they had lived in so respectable a manner as to engage the general good opinion of their surrounding acquaintance. The late owner of this estate was a single man, who lived to a very advanced age, and who for many years of his life, had a constant companion and housekeeper in his sister. But her death, which happened ten years before his own, produced a great alteration in his home; for to supply her loss, he invited and received into his house the family of his nephew Mr. Henry Dashwood, the legal inheritor of the Norland estate, and the person to whom he intended to bequeath it.”
Scenes Avidlee will paint for you
Scene 1
Norland Park
A grand Regency English country house in a wooded Sussex park at dawn, warm honey light, painterly period drama.
Scene 2
The Dashwood Drawing Room
A Regency English drawing room at evening, two sisters in pale silk dresses by candlelight, a pianoforte, painterly, intimate.
Scene 3
Barton Cottage
A small honey-stone cottage tucked into a Devonshire valley, smoke from the chimney, a wooded hillside, painterly, peaceful Regency countryside.
Scene 4
Marianne in the Rain
A young woman in Regency dress caught in a sudden rainstorm on a country lane, rolling Devonshire hills behind her, painterly, romantic, dramatic.
Scene 5
A Ball at Sir John's
A Regency country ball in a lit-up English manor, couples dancing a quadrille in pale silks and cream coats, painterly warm candlelight.
Scene 6
London Streets
A misty Regency London street at twilight, sedan chairs and hansom cabs, ladies in long pelisses, painterly, Jane Austen 1810s.