I’d love to hear your suggestions about a title for a new blog series celebrating Sense and Sensibility, please. Laurel Ann Nattress proposed “An Invitation to Mansfield Park” for my 2014 series, Nora Bartlett gave me the title “Emma in the Snow” in 2015-16, and in 2018, Adam Q named “Youth and Experience: Northanger Abbey and Persuasion.” Please help save me from titles that are “very dull indeed,” such as the one I chose for “Pride and Prejudice at 200”!
It will be wonderful to celebrate Sense and Sensibility and Jane Austen’s 250th birthday with all of you in 2025, and in the meantime, I’m looking forward to Jane’s 247th birthday next Friday, December 16th. I’m in Germany with my sister Bethie right now, and we’re thinking about celebrating the 247th at the Christmas Market in Bonn.
Earlier this week, there was snow in Bonn, which is rare in early December. It was lovely to see flowers for sale outside even on a snowy day.
Bonn in the snow:
We’ve been to the Christmas Market a couple of times already and we’re planning to go again. Do you have plans for celebrations on (or near) Jane’s 247th birthday?
Sarah Emsley 
Lovely Bonn. Say hello to the town that was home for many years and where I went to university!
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Oh, how wonderful, Elisabeth! I love it here, and have spent a great deal of time walking around the university.
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As to my suggestion, it would be Sense and Sensibility and India.
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Thank you very much for the suggestion!
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Your photos are beautiful! I miss the sight of growing things; it is very much winter here in northern Canada. As far as a title, I am tempted to suggest “no sense, no feeling” as we used to say when I was a kid. Or perhaps “Sense vs Sensibility: The Eternal Dilemma.”
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Thank you, Pamela! I’m so glad you like the photos. And thank you for your suggestions!
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I have fond memories of Bonn and the ‘Siebengebirge’ from the 1980s.
‘Whatever happened to the other sister?’
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It’s lovely to hear that you have good memories of this place. I’m really enjoying my time here. Thanks so much for raising that excellent question about the third sister!
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That was a suggestion for a title! 🙂
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Yes–thanks, Andrew! I had put it on my list; sorry I neglected to make that clear in my reply.
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Wonderful photos, Sarah. Thanks for sharing!
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Thanks very much, Lyn. Wish you were here to join us for a glass of Riesling!
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Me, too! Have the best time.
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How about “Sense and Durability: Jane Austen’s Lasting Legacy”?
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Thanks very much, Sarah!
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As to my suggestion, I thought of Jane Austen’s words in a letter to her sister: “I am never too busy to think of S&S”, or Sense and Sensibility: A Novel, by a Lady (from the title page of the first edition).
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Thanks, Claudia! I love that line from her letter.
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Looking forward to your upcoming Sense and Sensibility blog series, Sarah.
The quote that stands out the most to me is, “Know your own happiness.”
When I searched further online I found you used this quote in your
Jane Austen’s Philosophy of the Virtues, so my vote is your own excellent title
Sense and Sensibility: “Know Your Own Happiness”
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Oh, thanks, Sue! It’s kind of you to suggest that. Thanks so much for your interest in the new series.
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