Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen was the baby Austin's first novel.

This child was 19 to 21 years old when she wrote the masterpiece on which the 1995 film masterpiece of the same name is based.

What were you doing from 19 to 21? Were you also reinventing the novel?

I was. The film was directed by Angley and adapted for the screen by Emma Thompson, who stars as

Eleanor, the rule-abiding, highly responsible eldest daughter.

This was Thompson's first screenplay, much like it was Austin's first novel.

Marianne, the free-spirited, passionate, Beethoven-playing middle daughter,

is played by Kate Winslet in her second role ever. Not nearly as impressive

as if it was her first role, which was six months prior. The film starts with a deathbed scene.

Mr. Dashwood Sr. is dying and beckons his son from his first marriage to his bedside.

You will find out soon enough from my will that the estate of Norland was left to me in such a way as prevents me from dividing it between my two families.

Mr. Dashwood Sr. remarried after the death of his first wife,

and his son from his first marriage is going to inherit everything.

His wife and daughters from his second marriage are entitled to nothing,

and he is afraid that they will live in poverty.

So he begs his son, who will inherit everything, to please take care of them.

Mr. Dashwood Jr. grants his father's deathbed wish,

and then we watch as his wife Fanny talks him down from materially helping his half-sisters at all.

So Mr. Dashwood Jr. and his wife Fanny take over the family estate.

They move in with Eleanor, Marianne, Mrs. Dashwood, and the youngest Dashwood sister, Margaret.

Why are they coming to live at Norland?

They already have a house in London.

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