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2022 Essay Contest

Winning Entries

 
Topic: Sense and Sensibility

Family relations loom large in this novel, and Austen has more than one story to tell, with four sets of siblings and notable mothers. We invited students to submit essays about the relations between siblings or pairs of siblings, relations between mothers and their offspring, or the characteristics (apart from sense and sensibility) embodied by a related or unrelated pair. 

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Contents

HIGH SCHOOL DIVISION

Goodness Without Beauty: Mrs. Jennings as a Hidden Mother Figure in Sense and Sensibility

Campbell L. Collins

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The Three Mothers of Elinor Dashwood: The Bewitching Ideals of Motherhood in Sense and Sensibility

Ansleigh M. Go

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John Dashwood and Edward Ferrars: Duty, Affection and Brotherhood

Annika E. Jonson

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COLLEGE/UNIVERSITY DIVISION

“The Old, Well Established Grievance”: Generational Conflict in Austen’s Sense and Sensibility

Emily K. Aycrigg

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The Cottage as Metaphor: Perspectives on Marianne Dashwood’s Improvement

Idone F. Rhodes

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“Although We Can Observe You No Longer”: Death and the Dashwood Family

Zoe Karoub

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GRADUATE SCHOOL DIVISION

Rectifying an Ignorance of the World: The Critique of Social Silence in Austen’s Sense and Sensibility

Susan E. Matassa

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Marriage and Marriageability: A Linguistic Study of Mrs. Dashwood and Mrs. Jennings

Haleigh Yaspan

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Christian Ethics in the Dashwood Family: An Exploration of the Effects of Elinor’s Prudence on Marianne

Mary Kroner

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Fates and Fortunes: The Role of the Protector in Achieving a Happy Ending in Austen’s Sense and Sensibility

Amanda M. MacMurtrie

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ESSAY CONTEST COMMITTEE

Meg Levin, Chair
Carol Moss


ESSAY CONTEST JUDGES

Patricia Ard
College of New Jersey
Mahwah, NJ

Elaine Bander
Dawson College (retired)
Montreal, QC

Pauline Beard
Pacific University (emerita)
Forest Grove, OR

Rosa Beyer
University of Chicago
Chicago, IL

Courtney O. Carlisle
The John Dewey Academy
Great Barrington, MA

Jessica Connolly
Trinity College
Dublin, Ireland

MarJean Corkran
Enterprise State Community College Enterprise, AL

Becky Dolin
Graham School
University of Chicago Chicago, IL

Rebecca Duncan

Susan Durst
Boise Public Schools (retired)
Boise, ID

Judith Elson

Rose Engelfried

Mayra Garcia
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools
Charlotte, NC

 Kelly Helm
Washington & Jefferson College Washington, PA

 

Deborah Knuth Klenck
Colgate University
Hamilton, NY

Jeanie Lewis
Loyola University
Chicago, IL

Keiko Parker
University of British Columbia
Vancouver, BC

Taya Sazama
University of South Dakota
Vermillion, SD

Sue Scott
Wake County Library
Raleigh NC

Sarah Shepherd

Gina Sipley
Nassau Community College
Garden City, NY

Maria Spray

Amy Stallings
College of William and Mary 
Williamsburg, VA

Alisa Thomas
Toccoa Falls College
Toccoa Falls, GA

Lisa Tyler
Sinclair Community College
Dayton, OH

Judith Umbach
University of Calgary
Calgary, AB

Chris Wilkes
Pacific University (emeritus) 
Forest Grove, OR