Pagan references in Jane Austen’s novels?

The British Regency period had some interesting festivities.

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I have recently read properly and for the first time Sense & Sensibility. The film adaptation (1995) has always been one of my favourite movies: the contrast between sisters Elinor and Marianne, is one of the best portrayals of the philosophical and eternal debate between reason and emotion…