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Sense and Sensibility is the first novel by the English author Jane Austen, published in 1811. It was published anonymously; By A Lady appears on the title page where the author's name might have been.
- 1811
- Romance novel
- Jane Austen
- Thomas Egerton, Military Library (Whitehall, London)
Apr 25, 2024 · Sense and Sensibility, a novel by Jane Austen that was published anonymously in three volumes in 1811 and that became a classic. The pointedly satirical, comic work offers a vivid depiction of 19th-century middle-class life as it follows the romantic relationships of Elinor and Marianne Dashwood.
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Elinor saw, with concern, the excess of her sister's sensibility; but by Mrs. Dashwood it was valued and cherished. They encouraged each other now in the violence of their affliction. The agony of grief which overpowered them at first, was voluntarily renewed, was sought for, was created again and again.
Jan 26, 1996 · Sense and Sensibility: Directed by Ang Lee. With James Fleet, Tom Wilkinson, Harriet Walter, Kate Winslet. Rich Mr. Dashwood dies, leaving his second wife and her three daughters poor by the rules of inheritance. The two eldest daughters are the title opposites.
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- 2 min
Sense & Sensibility: With Dominic Cooper, Charity Wakefield, Hattie Morahan, Janet McTeer. The sisters Eleanor and Marianne Dashwood try to find love and security in the 1800's. These two sisters coudn't be more different.
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- TV-14
Austen originally wrote Sense and Sensibility as an epistolary novel, i.e. a novel told through a series of letters. This early version was entitled Elinor and Marianne . Some letters still remain in Sense and Sensibility , and Elinor and Marianne are still the novel’s protagonists.
Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility was at least fifteen years in the making: first conceived and written as Elinor and Marianne in 1795 (a date from family tradition), converted into Sense and Sensibility beginning inNovember 1797 fromits previous epistolary form (also family memory), revised twelve years later in 1809 and 1810 with a view to ...
