"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 suitors. The film was released on December 13, 1995, in the United"
"and he was dependent on a great-uncle in Ireland to finance his education and establish his legal career. If Tom Lefroy later visited Hampshire, he was carefully kept away from the Austens, and Jane Austen never saw him again. In November 1798, Lefroy was still on Austen's mind as she wrote to her sister she had tea with one of his relatives, wanted desperately to ask about him, but could not bring herself to raise the subject. After finishing ""Lady Susan"", Austen began her first full-length novel ""Elinor and Marianne"". Her sister remembered that it was read to the family"
"one of her novels. In November 1797, George Austen wrote to Thomas Cadell, an established publisher in London, to ask if he would consider publishing ""First Impressions"". Cadell returned Mr. Austen's letter, marking it ""Declined by Return of Post"". Austen may not have known of her father's efforts. Following the completion of ""First Impressions"", Austen returned to ""Elinor and Marianne"" and from November 1797 until mid-1798, revised it heavily; she eliminated the epistolary format in favour of third-person narration and produced something close to ""Sense and Sensibility"". In 1797, Austen met her cousin (and future sister-in-law), Eliza de Feuillide, a"
"Marian Engel Marian Engel, , née Marian Ruth Passmore (May 24, 1933 – February 16, 1985) was a Canadian novelist and a founding member of the Writers' Union of Canada. Her most famous and controversial novel was ""Bear"" (1976), a tale of erotic love between a librarian and a bear. Born May 24, 1933 in Toronto, Ontario, Engel lived the first years of her life in foster care before being adopted by Frederick Searle and Mary Elizabeth (Fletcher) Passmore. Her father taught auto mechanics, taking on positions at schools across southwestern Ontario. The family moved frequently and Engel spent time"
"Eleanor Brown's first novel, ""The Weird Sisters"", tells the story of the three Andreas sisters who have widely different personalities. They reunite at their home in the rural town of Barnwell, Ohio, after their mother is diagnosed with breast cancer. Their father, an English professor with a passion for all things William Shakespeare named his three daughters after Shakespeare heroines: Rosalind (aka Rose), Cordelia (aka Cordy), and Bianca (aka Bean). The novel's title, ""The Weird Sisters"", alludes to the three witches (often referred to as ""the weird sisters"") that serve as the introduction to the Shakespearean tragedy Macbeth. Brown's debut"
"Marianne Hauser Marianne Hauser (December 11, 1910 – June 21, 2006) was an Alsatian-American novelist, short story writer and journalist. She is best known for the novels ""Prince Ishmael"" (1963) about the legendary foundling Caspar Hauser and ""The Talking Room"" (1976), an experimental novel about a pregnant 13- year-old raised by lesbian parents. She was the recipient of a Rockefeller Grant and a National Endowment for the Arts grant. Marianne Hauser was born in Strasbourg, Alsace-Lorraine. Her mother, of French Huguenot descent, led a bohemian life and designed clothing before marrying her father, a German of Jewish descent, who worked"
"Simon and the Oaks Simon and the Oaks (Swedish: Simon och ekarna) is a 1985 novel by Marianne Fredriksson. The book is set predominantly during the 1940s and uses the persecution of Jewish people during World War II as a backdrop. The book was later adapted into a Guldbagge Award-winning feature film by the same name starring Bill Skarsgård. After its release ""Simon and the Oaks"" became a bestseller and has since been translated into 25 languages. The book follows the Swedish man Simon Larsson throughout his childhood, adolescence, and adulthood. He grew up in Gothenburg with his adoptive parents,"
"Simon and the Oaks Simon and the Oaks (Swedish: Simon och ekarna) is a 1985 novel by Marianne Fredriksson. The book is set predominantly during the 1940s and uses the persecution of Jewish people during World War II as a backdrop. The book was later adapted into a Guldbagge Award-winning feature film by the same name starring Bill Skarsgård. After its release ""Simon and the Oaks"" became a bestseller and has since been translated into 25 languages. The book follows the Swedish man Simon Larsson throughout his childhood, adolescence, and adulthood. He grew up in Gothenburg with his adoptive parents,"
"search of novelty."" Paterson continued: ""Morand strives for detachment, carefully avoids any hint of a moral or a thesis. The sensualist Lewis is just a bundle of appetites and aptitudes without passion or real intelligence; he has the sleek sufficiency of a beast of prey. Irene is merely his opposite. Their behavior has no ethical meaning; it is like a series of chemical reactions. The book is clever, thin, and dry."" Lewis and Irene Lewis and Irene () is a 1924 novel by the French writer Paul Morand. It tells the story of the romance between a French financial speculator"
"Katrina (novel) Katrina is a Swedish language novel published in 1936, written by Åland author Sally Salminen. The publishing company Holger Schildts Förlag had announced a writing competition, for which Salminen had submitted her first draft of ""Katrina"". Salminen won first prize, and the publisher agreed to publish the novel. According to a nephew of Salminen, Henrik Salminen, her publisher requested 12 different drafts before they finally published the novel. The novel was Salminen's first, and became a surprise success, eventually being translated into more than 20 languages, including English, French and German. On her native Åland the novel caused"
"Lewis and Irene Lewis and Irene () is a 1924 novel by the French writer Paul Morand. It tells the story of the romance between a French financial speculator and a young Greek widow from a family of bankers. The book was published in English in 1925. Lewis is a French financial speculator of an adventurous and gambling type. He takes up an option is a sulphur mine on Sicily, but is outmatched by Irene Apostolatos, a young Greek widow who represents the Apostolatos Bank. The two fall in love. They decide to settle down and devote themselves to domestic"
"in the cemetery of St John-at-Hampstead in North London. In this epistolary novel, Laura is writing to Marianne, the daughter of her most intimate friend, Isobel, ""comtesse de Feuillide"". Her vocabulary includes a few French words, and she writes ""Adeiu"" (sic) before her signature. According to a letter from Eliza de Feuillide, the title of the novel had been derived by Jane Austen from the Latin phrase inscribed on the back of a miniature portrait given to cousin Phylly Walter by Eliza, ""Amoris et Amicitiae"". Eliza and Henry Austen are generally considered to be pictured here. This would then be"
"hurricanes named Lolita that year, but that is the year that ""Lolita"" the novel was published in North America. The unfinished novel ""The Original of Laura"", published posthumously, features the character Hubert H. Hubert, an older man preying upon then-child protagonist, Flora. Unlike those of Humbert Humbert in ""Lolita"", Hubert's advances are unsuccessful. The novel abounds in allusions to classical and modern literature. Virtually all of them have been noted in ""The Annotated Lolita"", edited and annotated by Alfred Appel, Jr. Many are references to Humbert's own favorite poet, Edgar Allan Poe. Humbert Humbert's first love, Annabel Leigh, is named"
"Trollrunor Trollrunor in Swedish and Trollruner in Norwegian (in English ""Magical Runes""; this series has not been translated into English) is a historical series of novels, written by Norwegian-Swedish author Margit Sandemo. The main body of this series of novels takes place in Österlen, Sweden in the end of Middle Ages. Main characters of Trollrunor are a young girl named Iliana and her partner Ravn, who is a younger son of evil lord Bogislav. Their enemy is the malicious Moon Witch. First part of this set of books came out 2005, and it has been published in Swedish and Norwegian."
"Patience and Sarah Patience and Sarah is a 1969 historical fiction novel with strong lesbian themes by Alma Routsong, using the pen name Isabel Miller. It was originally self-published under the title ""A Place For Us"" and eventually found a publisher as ""Patience and Sarah"" in 1971. Routsong's novel is based on a real-life painter named Mary Ann Willson who lived with her companion Miss Brundage as a ""farmerette"" in the early 19th century in Greene County, New York. Routsong said she came upon Willson's work in a folk art museum in Cooperstown and was inspired to write the story"
"Poison (Kielland novel) Poison (original Norwegian title: ""Gift"") is an 1883 novel by the Norwegian writer Alexander Kielland. The novel is the first in a trilogy including ""Fortuna"" (1884) and ""St. Hans Fest"" (1887). This famous novel is an attack on the Norwegian education system, particularly on the obsession with Latin. A schoolboy, Marius, is tormented throughout the first half of the novel by his scholastic inability, and during his final illness continues to murmur rote phrases, his last words being ""Mensa rotunda"". The main character of the book is Marius's friend Abraham Løvdahl, the son of a respected professor."
"Poison (Kielland novel) Poison (original Norwegian title: ""Gift"") is an 1883 novel by the Norwegian writer Alexander Kielland. The novel is the first in a trilogy including ""Fortuna"" (1884) and ""St. Hans Fest"" (1887). This famous novel is an attack on the Norwegian education system, particularly on the obsession with Latin. A schoolboy, Marius, is tormented throughout the first half of the novel by his scholastic inability, and during his final illness continues to murmur rote phrases, his last words being ""Mensa rotunda"". The main character of the book is Marius's friend Abraham Løvdahl, the son of a respected professor."
"""War and Peace"" and ""Anna Karenina"", written by Leo Tolstoy. The structure of Couperus' book ""Eline Vere"" was similar to that of ""Anna Karenina"" (division into short chapters). He had also just read ""Ghosts"", a play written by Henrik Ibsen; reference to the leading character of ""Ghosts"" is made when Eline Vere is delirious with fever and cries: ""Oh god, the ghosts, approaching grinning"" – also the suicide by the main characters in ""Eline Vere"" and in ""Ghosts"" by taking an overdose of morphine is the same. Between 17 June until 4 December 1888, the novel ""Eline Vere"" was published"
"which features one sister full of rational sense and another sister of romantic, emotive sensibility, is considered to have been an inspiration as well. West’s romantic sister-heroine also shares her first name, Marianne, with Austen’s. There are further textual similarities, described in a modern edition of West's novel. ""Sense"" means good judgment, wisdom, or prudence, and ""sensibility"" means sensitivity, sympathy, or emotionality. Elinor is described as a character with great ""sense"" (although Marianne, too, is described as having sense), and Marianne is identified as having a great deal of ""sensibility"" (although Elinor, too, feels deeply, without expressing it as openly)."
"list is organised by the author's surname. ""The Queen's Tiara"" () is a classic Swedish novel by Carl Jonas Love Almquist about a beautiful androgyne, Tintomara. ""The World Wreckers"" is a 1971 science fiction novel by Marion Zimmer Bradley in her Darkover series. The book contains a complex sub-plot involving the sexual interactions between a hermaphrodite native species known as the ""chieri"" and humans. The ""Vorkosigan Saga"" is a series of science fiction novels and short stories set in a common fictional universe by American author Lois McMaster Bujold. Many novels in the series contain an intersex character, Bel Thorne."
"The Princess and the Unicorn The Princess and the Unicorn is a children's fantasy novel by British-born American author Carol Hughes, who also wrote ""Jack Black and the Ship of Thieves"". The novel was published in hardcover on February 24, 2009, by Random House Books for Young Readers. This novel follows two characters: Princess Eleanor of England and a young fairy named Joyce. Joyce lives in Swinley Forest with a community of other fairies who rely on the forest's unicorn for survival. One day, Joyce follows the unicorn to the edge of the forest and is spotted by Princess Eleanor."
"The Queen's Tiara The Queen's Tiara () is a classic Swedish novel by Carl Jonas Love Almquist. It is the fourth instalment in the series of novels known as ""Törnrosens bok"" (The Book of the Thorn Rose) and was published in 1834. ""Drottningens juvelsmycke"" was the first original historical novel to be written in Sweden, and it features one of Swedish literature's most enduringly popular characters, the intersex Tintomara. The novel is set in 1792 and weaves the story of the beautiful but sexless androgyne Tintomara around the assassination of King Gustav III of Sweden, commonly nicknamed 'The Theatre King',"
"you to adopt their sentiments or conform to their judgment in serious matters?"" Elinor criticizes Marianne for her ""sincerity"" not in itself, but rather because Marianne makes no effort to hide her feelings, despite the pain she sometimes causes others, which makes her ""sincerity"" a type of selflessness for Elinor. The novel described Elinor's character as: ""She was stronger alone, and her own good sense so well supported her, that her firmness was as unshaken, her appearance of cheerfulness as invariable, as with regards and so fresh, it was possible for them to be"". Irvine noted that if the similarities"
"Bainbridge Island. Elsa Watson Elsa Watson is an American author. Her first novel, ""Maid Marian"" (2005), details a history of Marian, the female companion to Robin Hood. Watson was inspired to write about Marian because """"It struck [her] as strange that [Marian's] name is so well known, yet no one has a sense of her character beyond her role as Robin Hood's consort."""" Watson is also the author of ""Dog Days"", published in May 2012, ""A Christmas Tail"" (October 2012), and ""The Love Dog"" (January 2013). Elsa Watson graduated from Carleton College with a degree in classical languages and now"
"Kristin Lavransdatter Kristin Lavransdatter is a trilogy of historical novels written by Nobel laureate Sigrid Undset. The individual novels are ""Kransen"" (""The Wreath""), first published in 1920, ""Husfrue"" (""The Wife""), published in 1921, and ""Korset"" (""The Cross""), published in 1922. ""Kransen"" and ""Husfrue"" were translated from the original Norwegian as ""The Bridal Wreath"" and ""The Mistress of Husaby"", respectively, in the first English translation by Charles Archer and J. S. Scott. This work formed the basis of Undset receiving the 1928 Nobel Prize in Literature, which was awarded to her ""principally for her powerful descriptions of Northern life during the"
"the ""Frauen-Zeitung"" newspaper which was also published by her husband, and the epistolary novel ""Amalie and Minna"". She also worked on the weekly ""Der Beobachter"", published by her husband since August 1788. Her first literary success was in 1784 the novel ""Philosophie eines Weibs"" (literally: philosophy of a wife), in 1788 followed by the autobiographical epistolary novel ""Amalie: Eine wahre Geschichte in Briefen"" (literally: Amalie: a true story in letters). From 1790 to 1792 she issued the monthly published women's magazines ""Amaliens Erholungsstunden"" (literally: Amalie's holiday hours). Because the self-publishing could not handle the success of the magazine, Marianne and"
"(1897), ""Doña Ysabel"" (1898), ""Ladies in Markby"" (1901), ""Daybreak"" (1902), ""Nina"" (1903), ""Little Marica and Her Husband"" (1904), ""Lady Elizabeth Percy"" (1905), ""Her Hero"" (1906), ""Mary Stuart"" (1907), ""Nina's Honeymoon"" (1908), ""Karl Skytles Wife"" (1909), ""Sisters of Ribershus"" (1910) and ""The White House and Red House"" (1911). The later work shows lush, but little original, storytelling imagination and a lot of free floating. The historical novels found a large readership in the early 1900s, but her breakthrough novel ""Berta Funcke"" still arouses interest. Malling's first two novels were heatedly discussed. Swedish feminist Ellen Key was famously connected with her. Malling's"
"Millennium (novel series) Millennium is a series of best-selling and award-winning Swedish crime novels, created by Stieg Larsson. The two primary characters in the saga are Lisbeth Salander, a woman in her twenties with a photographic memory and poor social skills, and Mikael Blomkvist, an investigative journalist and publisher of a magazine called ""Millennium"". Larsson planned the series as having ten installments, but due to his sudden death in 2004, only three were completed and published. All three were published posthumously: ""The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo"" in 2005, ""The Girl Who Played with Fire"" in 2006, and ""The Girl"
"one of its significant characters is named ""Urania."" Other literary sources include Edmund Spenser's ""The Faerie Queene"" and Ludovico Ariosto's ""Orlando Furioso"". Anthony Munday's English translation of ""Amadis de Gaule"", published in 1618 and 1619, may have also been a major source for Wroth. The romance inspired several of Urania's plotlines, including the Throne of Love sequence near the beginning of the work. Wroth also drew heavily on the political and social world around her, and many of the work's storylines have connections to Wroth's family, court life, and historical events of the early 17th century. John Marriott and John"
"the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences on June 15, 2009. Patience and Sarah Patience and Sarah is a 1969 historical fiction novel with strong lesbian themes by Alma Routsong, using the pen name Isabel Miller. It was originally self-published under the title ""A Place For Us"" and eventually found a publisher as ""Patience and Sarah"" in 1971. Routsong's novel is based on a real-life painter named Mary Ann Willson who lived with her companion Miss Brundage as a ""farmerette"" in the early 19th century in Greene County, New York. Routsong said she came upon Willson's work in a"
"The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest (original title in , literally, ""the air castle that was blown up"") is the third novel in the best-selling ""Millennium"" series by Swedish writer Stieg Larsson. It was published in Swedish in 2007; in English, in the UK, in October 2009; and in the US and Canada on 25 May 2010. The first three novels in the series, ""The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo"" (2005), ""The Girl Who Played with Fire"" (2006), and ""The Girl who Kicked the Hornets' Nest"" were written by Stieg Larsson before"
"of poverty and constant struggle against difficult circumstances and unsympathetic people in power. Katrina (novel) Katrina is a Swedish language novel published in 1936, written by Åland author Sally Salminen. The publishing company Holger Schildts Förlag had announced a writing competition, for which Salminen had submitted her first draft of ""Katrina"". Salminen won first prize, and the publisher agreed to publish the novel. According to a nephew of Salminen, Henrik Salminen, her publisher requested 12 different drafts before they finally published the novel. The novel was Salminen's first, and became a surprise success, eventually being translated into more than 20"
"The Princess and the Queen The Princess and the Queen, or, the Blacks and the Greens is a novella by George R. R. Martin, published in the 2013 Tor Books anthology ""Dangerous Women"". Set in the Westeros of Martin's ""A Song of Ice and Fire"" series, 200 years before the events of ""A Game of Thrones"" (1996), it chronicles the ""continent-burning warfare"" (called the ""Dance of Dragons"") that explodes between Targaryen Princess Rhaenyra and her stepmother, Queen Alicent. The work is presented as the writing of the fictional Archmaester Gyldayn, also the ""author"" of Martin's 2014 novella ""The Rogue Prince"","