One can only assume they see it as a money-spinner. Why? It certainly can't be because the originals are unreadable - I'd imagine they are more popular today than they have ever been. The Austen project is a strange little idea to rewrite all the Austen novels for a modern age. And on the assumption that no-one will be interested in this who doesn't know the original, there are some mild spoilers.

Persons of a sensitive disposition may wish to look away now. Warning! This review may involve wailing and gnashing of teeth, not to mention cursing.of both kinds. Her novel Parson Harding's Daughter won in 1980 the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association. From 1967 to 1979, she was employed in a number of teaching posts before she became a writer full-time in 1980.

Today, she is a grandmother and lives on her own in London.įrom 1965 to 1967, she worked at the Foreign Office. In 1985, she remarried to the television dramatist Ian Curteis, and became the stepmother of two stepsons they divorced in 2001. On, she married the banker David Roger William Potter, they had two daughters, Antonia and Louise, and on 1983 they divorced. She was educated at Reigate County School for Girls followed by St Hugh's College, Oxford. She is a fifth-generation niece of the Victorian novelist Anthony Trollope and is a cousin of the writer and broadcaster James Trollope. Joanna Trollope was born on 9 December 1943 in her grandfather's rectory in Minchinhampton, Gloucestershire, England, daughter of Rosemary Hodson and Arthur George Cecil Trollope. Joanna Trollope Potter Curteis (aka Caroline Harvey) For when it comes to money, some things never change. Re-imagining Sense and Sensibility in a fresh, modern new light, she spins the novel's romance, bonnets, and betrothals into a wonderfully witty coming-of-age story about the stuff that really makes the world go around. With her sparkling wit, Joanna Trollope casts a clever, satirical eye on the tales of Elinor and Marianne Dashwood. When she descends upon Norland Park with her Romanian nanny and her mood boards, the three Dashwood girls-Elinor, Marianne, and Margaret-are suddenly faced with the cruelties of life without their father, their home, or their money.Īs they come to terms with life without the status of their country house, the protection of the family name, or the comfort of an inheritance, Elinor and Marianne are confronted by the cold hard reality of a world where people's attitudes can change as drastically as their circumstances. But his wife, Fanny, has no desire to share their newly inherited estate with Belle Dashwood's daughters. John Dashwood promised his dying father that he would take care of his half sisters.

Raison et Sentiments by Jane Austen