article_snippet: Joanna Trollope is a young man with means because of the slave trade.
article_snippet: Joanna Trollope, 71, decided to shatter the illusion surrounding Jane Austen's's heroes after being approached by publishers Harper Collins to write an updated version of Sense and Sensibility for the Austen Project in 2013.
article_snippet: But in her adaptation, Ms Trollope, whose reinvented characters say things like 'totes amazeballs', had to make one crucial change - her gave her protagonists jobs. '
article_snippet: It's tough stuff and clever women were doomed to a sort of infantilism because there was no career except marriage, which is why the women in her novels sabotage each other so disgracefully.'
article_snippet: Despite her reservations about how Jane Austen's heroes made Austen's heroes money, Ms Trollope said Ms Trollope ended the project thinking the author was 'an absolute genius'.
article_snippet: Ms Trollope said: 'There Ms Trollope was, the second daughter of a not very distinguished or noisy country parson in Hampshire, and Ms Trollope was writing for Ms Trollope own pleasure, Ms Trollope own satisfaction. '
article_snippet: How did Ms Trollope know, out of some unbelievable instinct, that romantic love, class and money were going to be the stuff of fiction forever?'
article_snippet: Ms Trollope, who said Ms Trollope 'stuck like paint' to Jane Austen's characters in Ms Trollope own adaptation, quickly realised the romantic novelist did not believe in happy ever after.
article_snippet: Ms Trollope added: 'There is no such thing as happily ever after.
article_snippet: That is why you can see in Jane Austen novels Jane Austen loses interest the moment the proposal is sorted and X is plainly going to marry Y. '
article_snippet: I you read the final paragraphs of Jane Austen six published novels, you will see Jane Austen just says: 'Less of that and get on with it, not interested any more.'
highlights_snippet: Joanna Trollope says it is the reason Joanna Trollope job is never mentioned in novel .
  
highlights_snippet: Joanna Trollope wrote an updated version of Austen's Sense and Sensibility in 2013 .
  