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INSTRUCTION WITH AMUSEMENT: JANE AUSTEN'S WOMEN OF SENSE

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From: Renascence
Date: 20071001
Author:Stove, Judy

MANY viewers recall the amusing scenes in the film Sense and Sensibility (directed by Ang Lee, 1995) in which Edward Ferrars (Hugh Grant) plays with Margaret Dashwood (Emilie François), the younger sister of Elinor and Marianne. The only problem is that the scenes do not appear in the novel of the same name by Jane Austen.

Then again, remember the young Fanny Price (Frances O'Connor), in Mansfield Park (directed by Patricia Rozema, 1999), entertaining Edmund Bertram (Jonny Lee Miller) with her funny and subversive writings? But again, Jane Austen's Fanny Price did not do, and would not have ...

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