My mom loves Jane Austen, have you ever heard of her?
I have heard of her - she was an English novelist that wrote about the British at the end of the 18th century
She wrote Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice, which are big well known novels, must have been hard to be a female writer back in the day.
Sense and Sensibility (film)
Sense and Sensibility is a 1995 American period drama film directed by Ang Lee and based on Jane Austen's 1811 novel of the same name. Emma Thompson wrote the screenplay and stars as Elinor Dashwood, while Kate Winslet plays Elinor's younger sister Marianne. The story follows the Dashwood sisters, members of a wealthy English family of landed gentry, as they must deal with circumstances of sudden destitution. They are forced to seek financial security through marriage. Hugh Grant and Alan Rickman play their respective
bachelor. He is the fiance of Maria Bertram who is the eldest daughter of Sir Thomas Bertram.
Background.
Jane Austen was born in December 1775 and died in July 1817. She was a British novelist who wrote six novels: "Sense and Sensibility", "Pride and Prejudice", "Mansfield Park", "Emma", "Persuasion", and "Northanger Abbey". Her novels are about romance within the gentry.
"Mansfield Park" was written between 1811 and 1813 and was published