Sense and sensibility

by Jane Austen

Overview

On the death of Mr Dashwood, his wife and their three daughters, Elinor, Marianne and Margaret, are forced to drastically reduce their standard of living and leave their beautiful property for exile in the countryside. Indeed, the son of the first marriage of the late Mr. Dashwood and his stepdaughter who must inherit. The Dashwood sisters and their mother moved into a cottage in Devonshire, kindly made available by a distant cousin. The two heroines of this novel are the two eldest Elinor and Marianne which we follow the amorous adventures. Elinor, wise and reasonable feels tender feelings for Edward Ferrars, the brother of his wife's sister. These feelings seem mixed. But the difference in fortune, to the detriment of Elinor, and commitment of the young man with a cousin, frivolous and thoughtless, undermine their romance.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781519609755
Publisher:	CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date:	11/30/2015
Pages:	326
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.73(d)

About the Author

Jane Austen; 16 December 1775 - 18 July 1817) was an English novelist whose works of romantic fiction, set among the landed gentry, earned her a place as one of the most widely read writers in English literature. Her realism, biting irony and social commentary have gained her historical importance among scholars and critics. Austen lived her entire life as part of a close-knit family located on the lower fringes of the English landed gentry. She was educated primarily by her father and older brothers as well as through her own reading. The steadfast support of her family was critical to her development as a professional writer. From her teenage years into her thirties she experimented with various literary forms, including an epistolary novel which she then abandoned, wrote and extensively revised three major novels and began a fourth. From 1811 until 1816, with the release of Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814) and Emma (1815), she achieved success as a published writer. She wrote two additional novels, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion, both published posthumously in 1818, and began a third, which was eventually titled Sanditon, but died before completing it. Austen's works critique the novels of sensibility of the second half of the 18th century and are part of the transition to 19th-century realism.Her plots, though fundamentally comic, highlight the dependence of women on marriage to secure social standing and economic security. Her works, though usually popular, were first published anonymously and brought her little personal fame and only a few positive reviews during her lifetime, but the publication in 1869 of her nephew's A Memoir of Jane Austen introduced her to a wider public, and by the 1940s she had become widely accepted in academia as a great English writer. The second half of the 20th century saw a proliferation of Austen scholarship and the emergence of a Janeite fan culture

Date of Birth:

December 16, 1775

Date of Death:

July 18, 1817

Place of Birth:

Village of Steventon in Hampshire, England

Place of Death:

Winchester, Hampshire, England

Education:

Taught at home by her father