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Why I Love Sense & Sensibility (Patreon)

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2026-10-22 16:00:19
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2026-11
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In honor of the new film, sharing my feelings about the book and why it still impacts me.

Recommended Jane Austen Reading:

Jane Austen, the Secret Radical by Helena Kelly

Jane Austen: A Life by Claire Tomalin

Jane Austen's Bookshelf: A Rare Book Collector's Quest to Find the Women Writers Who Shaped a Legend by Rebecca Romney

PBS Books Readers Club – “Miss Austen” by Gill Hornby: https://www.pbsbooks.org/event/readers-club-204/

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Sense & Sensibility Is My Favorite Jane Austen

In honor of the new film, sharing my feelings about the book and why it still affects me.

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Erin Nye

I totally agree with you about Mr. & Mrs. Bennett. It has always annoyed me that there is so much hate for her out there, and at the same time everyone seems to love silly Mr. Bennet and his snarky little comments. Like you said, this IS a patriarchy, he has the most power in this situation, he needs to stop sitting around and laughing behind his hand at his family and do! his! job!

Jovan

To me ppl completely miss the point and just want to drag a woman who's obsessed with marrying and marrying well. Sure she's overzealous and embarrassing, but somebody has to be on that grind for the daughters. Mr. Bennett spends ~90% of the book in his library and talks about how Mrs. Bennett's hotness trapped him into living with an idiot. He only acts when Lydia is compromised. He comments on how foolish and headstrong Lydia is and had he been the patriarch of his family, he would have seen how enamored she was with the soldiers. I read on interesting adaptation where Elizabeth is a trans man named Oliver that makes Mr. Bennett into this loving ally who sits and talks with his son when he's caught sneaking out and dressing like a boy while Mrs. Bennett becomes more shrill. I understand thematically why Mrs. Bennett is more like an enemy because all the talk about pregnancy triggers Oliver's body dysphoria, but she's almost monstrous. I think the book accidentally upholds the patriarchy in that Mr. Bennett engages with and supports a son. https://joyfullyjay.com/2024/01/review-most-ardently-by-gabe-cole-novoa/

e.lonnrot

Right, Mr. Bennett embodies the type of patriarch that seems harmless, but his inaction has consequences actually … Not enough people seem to recognize this!