Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen - 'Call It Hope'

Our watercolour literary posters bring your favourite stories to life in a vibrant reimagining of timeless classics. Each piece has been carefully created to be true to the original, expressing themes through striking original artwork and our own added subtitle.

These prints are made to be the statement piece that your living room, study or bedroom has been missing. Reflect your passion for literature in your home by adding a window to your favourite literary world.

This watercolour is titled Call It Hope and is a part of our Jane Austen collection.

We currently offer 3 for 2 across all our prints, automatically applied at checkout. 

Don't miss the opportunity to surround yourself with the beauty and inspiration of the literary world or give a personal and meaningful literary gift to fellow book lovers.

We encourage you to read the ‘The Story’ tab to share our love of the text and understand the story behind our book poster design.

Product Details

Sizing

• A5: 210 x 148 mm (8.3 x 5.8 in)
• A4: 297 x 210 mm (11.7 x 8.3 in)
• A3: 420 x 297 mm (16.5 x 11.7 in)
• A2: 594 x 420 mm (23.4 x 16.5 in)

Packaging and Delivery

• Please see our Delivery Information for shipping times, costs, and free delivery offers.
• All items dispatched within 1 – 3 working days in protective sustainable packaging.
  
• Dedicated customer support with replies to all queries within 24 hours.
• Fine-art matte paper with vivid archival ink.
• FSC-certified wood frames with shatterproof plexiglass.
• Please see our FAQs for further information, or to contact us about customising your item.

Create a space with your dream bookish décor that reflects your passion for literature and inspires your imagination - be it a grand reading corner, cosy book nook, or elegant bookshelf décor.

The Story

Originally, we had a complicated relationship with Sense and Sensibility. On the one hand, we admire the Dashwood sister's ability to endure and were pleased they ended the novel content with their lives. However, we feel their end to be unambitious, with Marianne's emotional depth capitulating to Elinor's good sense. Is this dose of reality that Austen gave to readers of the work. Perhaps aspiring to domestic contentedness was as much as contemporary women could hope for. Even further, we may even see merit in cooling one's desire and see the novel as contemporary critics did, as a behaviour blueprint to achieve a domestic prize. That is, if we see the finding of a husband to be the climax of the story... (we don't). 

One critic writes "It is this very closeness between the sisters that allows these differences to emerge during their exchange". We read Sense and Sensibility with this closeness in mind - as two close sisters working together to maintain a sense of self which can only be fully realised in a relationship with each other due to the confines of a woman's place in Austen's world. They are the only characters capable of intelligent thought and it may be that they understood their respective marriages to be the only practical solution against the insecurity of remaining an unmarried woman. They work hard to keep their relationship together. Our bookish print draws on these complex themes of togetherness and places the sisters together in the centre of a storm, taking shelter with each other, We use vibrant but dark colours to represent a semi-hostile world. The estate both looms in the distance as an inevitability but also seems to be an objectve gazed upon by the two sisters as a means to remain together. This results in a vintage book poster perfect for readers and book lovers looking for Jane Austen gifts to curate an authentic bookish decor experience that stays true to the themes of this classic literature.

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