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About Sense And Sensibility
Sense and Sensibility is a novel by Jane Austen, that came out in 1811. It was distributed namelessly; By A Lady shows up on the cover sheet where the creator's name could have been. It recounts the tale of the Dashwood sisters, Elinor (age 19) and Marianne (age 16?) really age.
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Sense and Sensibility is a novel by Jane Austen, that came out in 1811. It was distributed namelessly; By A Lady shows up on the cover sheet where the creator's name could have been. It recounts the tale of the Dashwood sisters, Elinor (age 19) and Marianne (age 16?) really age.
They have a more established stepbrother, John, and a more youthful sister, Margaret (age 13).The novel follows the three Dashwood sisters as they should move with their bereft mother from the domain in which they grew up, Norland Park. Since Norland is passed down to John, the result of Mr. Dashwood's most memorable marriage, and his young child, the four Dashwood ladies need to search for another home.
They have the chance to lease a nice home, Barton Cottage, on the property of a far-off family member, Sir John Middleton. There Elinor and Marianne experience love, sentiment, and catastrophe.
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About Jane Austen
Jane Austen was born on 16 December 1775 at Steventon near Basingstoke, the seventh child of the rector of the parish. She lived with her family at Steventon until they moved to Bath when her father retired in 1801. After his death in 1805, she moved around with her mother; in 1809, they settled in Chawton, near Alton, Hampshire. Here she remained, except for a few visits to London, until in May 1817 she moved to Winchester to be near her doctor. There she died on 18 July 1817.
As a girl Jane Austen wrote stories, including burlesques of popular romances. Her works were only published after much revision, four novels being published in her lifetime. These are Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814) and Emma (1816). Two other novels, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion, were published posthumously in 1818 with a biographical notice by her brother, Henry Austen, the first formal announcement of her authorship. Persuasion was written in a race against failing health in 1815-16. She also left two earlier compositions, a short epistolary novel, Lady Susan, and an unfinished novel, The Watsons. At the time of her death, she was working on a new novel, Sanditon, a fragmentary draft of which survives.
Fellow novelist Katharine McMahon on Jane Austen...
I can't not choose her. And whichever I've read last is always my favourite. The nuance of emotion, the understanding of human nature revealed by Austen constantly delights me. When I reread Sense and Sensibility recently, for the first time Elinor came across as quite prissy and destined to marry a rather spineless husband. I wonder if that was intended?
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