Elinor Dashwood

JAustenCharacter
Name= Elinor Dashwood


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Fullname=Elinor Dashwood
MaidenName=
Gender = Female
Height = Taller than her sister Marianne, but no measure is given
Hair color = Very similar to Lucy Steele's hair color if not exactly the same
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Birth=
Death=
Age=19 at beginning of novel
Income=£200/year
Education=Home schooled
Rank=None
Carriages=None
Primary Residence=Barton Cottage, after leaving Norland Park, the Dashwood family estate
London Residence=stays with Mrs Jennings
Favorite Pastimes=Drawing, Letter Writing
Romantic Interest(s)=Edward Ferrars
Parents=Henry Dashwood and Mrs. Dashwood
Children=None
Portrayed = Sense and Sensibility: Emma Thompson|

Elinor Dashwood is a fictional character and the main protagonist of Jane Austen's "Sense and Sensibility". Elinor is a reserved, practical and thoughtful young woman who, compared with her more emotional and romantic younger sister Marianne, forms the 'sense' of the title. Following the death of their father the sisters (with their mother) are reduced to near-poverty by the selfishness and greed of their sister-in-law Fanny; Elinor's half-brother, Fanny's husband, who by law inherited their father's entire estate, has broken his promise to his dying father to take care of them. Elinor falls in love with Edward Ferrars, Fanny's brother, but her reduced circumstances and Edward's prior promises do not allow her to hope for any union between them.

Notable Portrayals

Elinor was portrayed by Emma Thompson in the 1995 film adaptation; in a 2008 BBC serial of "Sense and Sensibility", Elinor was portrayed by Hattie Morahan.

*Madge Evans in 1950
*Joanna David in 1971
*Irene Richards in 1981
*Emma Thompson in 1995
*Hattie Morahan in 2008
*Tabu in 2000, in the Tamil adaption Kandukondain Kandukondain

External links

* [http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/161 Sense and Sensibility] at Project Gutenberg