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Sense and Sensibility (2008)

Filming Locations

Blackpool Mill Cottage
Barton Cottage
Ham House
Cleveland
Loseley Park
Barton Park

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Plot Summary

When Mr. Dashwood dies, his estate, "Norland", passes to his only son, John. This leaves his second wife and three daughters, Elinor, Marianne, and Margaret, at the mercy of their stepson/half-brother and his selfish wife Fanny. Treated as unwelcome guests, the Dashwood women begin looking for another place to live. Meanwhile, Elinor grows attached to Fanny's brother Edward Ferrars, an unassuming, intelligent young man. But because Mrs. Ferrars wants her son to marry a woman of high rank or great estate, if not both, Elinor does not allow herself to hope for marriage.

Mrs. Dashwood and her daughters move from Norland to Barton Cottage in Devonshire, owned by their distant cousin Sir John Middleton, who lives at Barton Park with his family. Also staying there are Mrs. Jennings (Lady Middleton's mother) and Colonel Brandon, an old friend of Sir John. The gossipy Mrs. Jennings decides that Colonel Brandon must be in love with Marianne, and teases them about it. Marianne is displeased: she considers Colonel Brandon, at age thirty-five, to be an old bachelor incapable of falling in love or inspiring love in anyone else.

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Snapshot

Author
Jane Austen
Book published
1811-01-01
Publisher
Thomas Egerton, Military Library (Whitehall, London)
Screenplay writer
Andrew Davies
Director
John Alexander

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Characters and Actors

Elinor Dashwood
Hattie Morahan
Marianne Dashwood
Charity Wakefield
Edward Ferrars
Dan Stevens
Colonel Brandon
David Morrissey

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