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"Sense and Sensibility" is a 1811 novel by Jane Austen that follows two sisters with contrasting personalities as they navigate love and marriage in Regency-era England. The novel remains significant as an early example of Austen's distinctive social commentary and her exploration of how different temperaments shape women's choices and outcomes in matters of the heart.
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- Author
- Jane Austen
- First published
- 1811
- Editions
- 2,090
- Subjects
- Fiction, Romance, Historical, Regency, Inheritance and succession, fiction, Mate selection, fiction, Social classes, fiction, Family life, fiction, Text-books for foreigners, Young women, fiction, Literature
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Sense and Sensibility (working title: Elinor and Marianne) is the debut novel by English author Jane Austen, appearing in 1811. It was published anonymously: By A Lady appears on the title page where the author's name might have been.
The novel is probably set between 1792 and 1797 and follows the three Dashwood sisters and their widowed mother as they are forced to leave the family estate in Sussex and move to a modest cottage on the property of a distant relative in Devon. There the two eldest girls experience love and heartbreak that tries the contrasting characters of both.
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