Named after arguably Austen’s best-known novel, a particularly special rose is needed to be the namesake of ‘Pride & Prejudice’. Because their heroines are women who embody freedom and the importance of being oneself. Women who are proud of being women and who insist on their rights and their role in society. Emma & Northanger Abbey: In case you missed it, this collection includes Emma & Northanger Abbey with Emma Thompson that were previously released in 2018 and 2017. They are superb, and have been richly discussed already. Chawton Cottage is the affectionate name given to the Jane Austen’s House Museum, which is based in the Hampshire village of Chawton, near Alton. A welcome addition to any garden, ‘Sense and Sensibility’ produces wave after wave of blooms throughout the summer months, even into the first weeks of autumn.

Emma: Felt a bit too slice of life for a class I’m not part of so I couldn’t really get into it. Though Emma Thompson is so far the best of the narrators for the prose sections. The seven books in this box set— Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, andLove and Freindship (early writings and juvenilia)—contain some of the most brilliant, dazzling prose in the English language. The complete novels of Jane Austen come to life in this comprehensive collection of classic BBC adaptations. These much-loved romances spring vividly to life on the screen, full of wit and charm, with an equal amount of humor and drama, in adaptations that have been praised again and again for their faithfulness to the original novels. Mansfield Park - Fanny is a wildly unlikeable character. Probably my least favorite in any JA book. She’s prudish and judgmental. Bleh. Timeless Classics : a jewel of Victorian publishing designed to occupy a permanent place on our bookshelvesThis boasts an intense apricot shade that is certain to live long in the memory of anyone who sees it. Fanny sounded either petulant, bratty, or hysterical to me. Edmund also sounded really dull (as he is...)

Pride and Prejudice: better than the first story because I enjoyed the main story and characters more. Aside from Lydia... I do not care for Lydia. Austen introduces us to the Dashwood sisters who upon the death of their father are left with little money, status or their family home. Marianne wears her heart on her sleeve and when she falls in love with the dashing but unsuitable John Willoughby she ignores her sister Elinor's warning that her impulsive behaviour leaves her open to gossip and innuendo. Meanwhile Elinor, always sensitive to social convention, is struggling to conceal her own romantic disappointment. In that time, more than 1 million guests have flooded through the doors to learn about Austen’s life.I would have finished this weeks ago - I burned through some of the books, but the last one was painful. Now having heard them all, here is my personal ranking of Jane Austen novels I have read/listened to: Sense and Sensibility & Mansfield Park: Not my favorite Austen novels, so I have yet to finish them. The first few chapters of Sense and Sensibility are promising. absolutely loved the narration and voice acting, especially Hattie Moran and Blake Ritson as the horrible Fanny and John Dashwood

This is a very detailed bush rose with buds that open when temperatures soar to reveal globe-shaped flower heads. All the narrators and the performers were great. It's a treat to hear Emma Thompson narrate Sense and Sensibility and Emma, knowing that she was vital in the production and the adaptation of the latter for Ang Lee's version. A wonderful aspect many rose growers look forward to from their blooms is the delectable smell that they produce during the summertime, and the ‘Jane Austen’ certainly does not disappoint, as it releases a strong fragrance with hints of lilac. Jane Austen, the Brontë sisters, Louisa May Alcott… Timeless Classics offers you a superb selection of novels that revolutionised the female universe.Another popular rose which draws its name from one of Austen’s famous novels, ‘Sense and Sensibility’ was only launched at this year’s edition of the RHS Chelsea Flower Show, where it blew away the crowds! Mansfield Park: Long and slow to start then everything that does happen in the plot seems to happen all at once near the end. Have to say that I was surprised by Billie Piper’s narration as well mainly because I always forget how her actual voice sounds having only seen her in stuff like Doctor Who and Penny Dreadful.

Emma Thompson's much too rapid narration sometimes left little time to appreciate the wit and snark of the story; I didn't like the sound of my beloved Henry Tilney here A coming-of-age tale for naïve 17-year-old Catherine Morland, Northanger Abbey takes a comical look at themes of class, family, love and literature. Revelling in the sensationalist - and extremely popular - Gothic fiction of the day, the story follows Catherine out of Bath to the lofty manor of the Tilneys, where her overactive imagination gets to work constructing an absurd and melodramatic explanation for the death of Mrs Tilney, which threatens to jeopardise her newly forged friendships. She is best known for a collection of six books penned at the start of 19 th century, each of which will be found in the ‘classics’ section of libraries for the rest of time, including ‘Persuasion’, ‘Northanger Abbey’, ‘Emma’, ‘Mansfield Park’, ‘Sense and Sensibility’, and ‘Pride and Prejudice’ – the latter two have inspired the names of two roses released by Harkness Roses. This rose was first unveiled to the public at the 2013 edition of RHS Chelsea Flower Show to mark 200 years since the publication of the famed book, which has gone on to sell millions of copies. Pride and Prejudice - lovely as always. I spent the week watching the Keira Knightly film and Colin Firth miniseries after so I could feel like I was still listening to it.Adopted into the household of her uncle, Sir Thomas Bertram, Fanny Price grows up a meek outsider among her cousins in the unaccustomed elegance of Mansfield Park. Soon after Sir Thomas absents himself on business, Mary Crawford and her brother, Henry, arrive at Mansfield, bringing with them London glamour and the seductive taste for flirtation and theatre that precipitates a crisis. Emma is perfectly content with her life and sees no need for either love or marriage; nothing delights her more than matchmaking her fellow residents of Highbury. But when she ignores the warnings of her good friend Mr. Knightley and attempts to arrange a suitable match for her protegee Harriet Smith, her carefully laid plans soon unravel and have consequences that she never expected.