Ferrars has £1000 per annum to settle on Edmund for life, she must have an income greater than that because she would still have to support herself and Robert while she's still alive, and in addition leave something for Robert after her death. He doesn't appear to know about Willoughby and neither he or Fanny mention Miss Grey, so perhaps they didn't know her at all? When Elinor next meets her brother, after Marianne has been dumped, he notices Marianne looks unwell, but he doesn't talk about why. Mrs Jennings hears it from a Mrs Taylor, who herself hears it from a Mrs Walker who is a friend of Mrs Ellison, I believe.Ĭolonel Brandon over hears it in a shop, he has to ask someone who Mrs Ellison is. It all seems to come to the main characters as news through second hand gossip. In terms of the second question, I suppose it's possible, although I'm not sure there is any evidence that the Ferrars family are acquainted with Miss Grey, or her guardians who are a family called the Ellisons. If that's the case, then potentially Miss Grey is not any richer than Mrs Ferrars. So, if they consider that important, it's possible that Mrs Ferrars is richer than Miss Morton, but they are willing to over look that in order to have a connection to someone with a title. Miss Morton is the daughter of Lord Morton, who is possibly a Baronet? Whereas Mrs Ferrars doesn't appear to have connections to anyone in that class of people. Which would still mean that Miss Grey was richer than Mrs Ferrars.Īnother possibility, however, is that the Ferrars consider Miss Morton's social connections as having considerable value. It could be that the Ferrars are attempting a bit of social climbing here, and that actually Miss Morton is considerably richer than Mrs Ferrars. However, we've only got John Dashwood's word for it that they are 'equals'. If we take that at face value as being true, that would imply that Mrs Ferrars has roughly the same amount of money as Miss Morton, so therefore Miss Grey would be richer than Mrs Ferrars. That's John Dashwood talking and in my opinion the way he uses the phrase 'very desirable connection on both sides' makes it seem like he considers Edward to the social and financial equal of Miss Morton. And extremely acceptable it is, for we must live at a great expense while we are here. To give you another instance of her liberality:-The other day, as soon as we came to town, aware that money could not be very plenty with us just now, she put bank-notes into Fanny’s hands to the amount of two hundred pounds. A thousand a-year is a great deal for a mother to give away, to make over for ever but Mrs. A very desirable connection on both sides, and I have not a doubt of its taking place in time. Miss Morton, only daughter of the late Lord Morton, with thirty thousand pounds.
Ferrars, with the utmost liberality, will come forward, and settle on him a thousand a year, if the match takes place. It is not actually settled, but there is such a thing in agitation. We do know that Miss Morton has £30,000, which is obviously less than Miss Grey, and yet the Ferrars family consider her a very desirable match for Edward. I'm not sure that Mrs Ferrar's fortune, such as it is, is ever given a numerical value in the book. The package includes an insert.Miss Grey has £50,000. This 25th-anniversary edition is available as 1500 numbered copies on light green coloured vinyl. The score also includes two songs sung by the character of Marianne Dashwood, which Doyle adapted from two poems. You had this middle-class English motif, and with the music, you would have occasional outbursts of emotion". Doyle later described the film as "more stifled the music had to be suppressed to match what was happening onscreen. His musical score earned the composer his first nominations for the Academy Award for Best Original Score and the BAFTA Award for Best Film Music. He was a friend of writer and actress Emma Thompson and had worked with her on many previous films.
Sense and Sensibility is the original soundtrack of the 1995 film, composed by the Scottish composer Patrick Doyle.