About the author:
Jane Austen was an English novelist known primarily for her six major novels, which interpret, critique and comment upon the British landed gentry at the end of the 18th century. She was very creative minded and very intellectual. She has got creative atmosphere at home for witting. . Austen's plots often explore the dependence of women on marriage in the pursuit of favorable social standing and economic security. She write many novels in which some of them mansion as billow.
Her novel's are,
- Sense and Sensibility (1811)
- Pride and Prejudice (1813)
- Mansfield Park (1814)
- Emma (1815)
- Northanger Abbey (1818, posthumous)
- Persuasion (1818, posthumous)
- Lady Susan (1871, posthumous
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About the novel Sense and Sensibility:
Sense and Sensibility is a novel by Jane Austen, published in 1811. It tells the story of the Dashwood sisters, Elinor (age 19) and Marianne (age 16 1/2) as they come of age. They have an older, stingy half-brother, John, and a younger sister, Margaret, 13. The novel follows the three Dashwood sisters as they move with their widowed mother from the estate on which they grew up, Norland Park, to their new home, Barton Cottage. The four women must move to a meagre cottage on the property of a distant relative, where they experience love, romance, and heartbreak. The novel is likely set in southwest England, London and Sussex between 1792 and 1797.
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Plot of the novel:
This is the story of Elinor and Marianne
Dashwood, sisters who respectively represent the "sense" and
"sensibility" of the title. With their mother, their sister Margaret,
and their stepbrother John, they make up the Dashwood family.
Henry Dashwood, their father, has just died.
Norland Park, his estate, is inherited by John; to his chagrin, Henry
has nothing but ten thousand pounds to leave to his wife and daughters.
On his deathbed, he urges John to provide for them and John promises
that he will do so. He is already wealthy because he has a fortune from
his mother and is also married to the wealthy Fanny Ferrars.
Immediately after Henry's burial, the insensitive
Mrs. Dashwood moves into Norland Park and cleverly persuades John not
to make any provision for his stepmother and stepsisters. Mrs. Henry
Dashwood, disliking Fanny, wants to leave Norland Park at once, but
Elinor prudently restrains her until they can find a house within their
means.
Edward Ferrars, Fanny's brother, comes to stay
and is attracted to Elinor. Mrs. Dashwood and Marianne expect an
engagement, but Elinor is not so sure; she knows that Mrs. Ferrars and
Fanny will object to Edward's interest in her. Fanny takes exception to
Edward's fondness for Elinor and is so rude that Mrs. Dashwood at once
rents a cottage fortuitously offered to her by her cousin, Sir John
Middleton.
The Dashwoods move to Barton Cottage and are met
by Sir John, who does all in his power to make them comfortable. They
soon meet his elegant but insipid wife and their four children.
One day, when Marianne and Margaret are walking
on the downs, Marianne sprains her ankle. She is carried home by a
stranger, John Willoughby, who is staying at Allenham Court, a country
estate which he will inherit after the death of its elderly owner, Mrs.
Smith. Marianne and Willoughby fall in love and are inseparable. But
after a short time, Willoughby leaves unexpectedly for London without
explaining or declaring himself.
Edward Ferrars soon pays a visit to Barton Cottage. But he is distraught and gloomy, and Elinor is puzzled by his reserve.
Lady Middleton's mother, Mrs. Jennings, has been
staying at Barton Park. She teases Marianne about Colonel Brandon, a
friend of Sir Henry, who obviously admires Marianne. Though she likes
the colonel, Mrs. Jennings repeats some scandal about him; he is said to
have an illegitimate daughter, Miss Williams.
Lady Middleton's younger sister, Charlotte
Palmer, and her husband visit Barton Park. When they leave, Sir John
invites the Misses Steele, two young ladies whom he has met in Exeter
and has found to be connections of Mrs. Jennings.
Lucy confides to Elinor that she has been
secretly engaged to Edward Ferrars for four years. He was tutored by her
uncle and became well acquainted with Lucy and Anne at that time.
Elinor is shocked but concludes that Edward had a youthful infatuation
for Lucy. Lucy persists in asking for advice and begs Elinor to persuade
her brother John to give Edward the Barton living if he decides to take
orders.
Mrs. Jennings invites Elinor and Marianne to stay
with her in London. Marianne is eager to go because she hopes to see
Willoughby there. He has not been back to visit them, nor has he written
to Marianne.
In London, Marianne waits for a visit from
Willoughby. She writes him several times but receives no reply. One day
he leaves his card but never calls personally.
Finally, Elinor and Marianne see Willoughby at a
dance with a fashionable heiress, Miss Grey. He speaks curtly to
Marianne, who is distracted by his coldness. She writes him for an
explanation, and he returns her letters with a cruel note, denying that
he had ever been especially interested in her and announcing his
engagement to Miss Grey.
Colonel Brandon, who is also in London, is
distressed by Willoughby's conduct to Marianne and tells Elinor his own
story. As a young man, he had loved his cousin Eliza, his father's ward.
But to gain Eliza's fortune, his father had married her to his eldest
son, who had treated her badly. Years later, the colonel discovered that
Eliza had left her husband for another man. She had sunk lower and
lower, and was now penniless and on her deathbed. The colonel did all he
could for her and promised to bring up her daughter, also named Eliza.
Eliza, now grown, had been seduced by Willoughby, who had deserted her.
The colonel had fought a duel with Willoughby, but neither had been
injured.
John Dashwood and his wife come to London for the
season. He meets his sisters and is introduced to the Middletons, whom
he finds very congenial. Anne and Lucy Steele are invited to stay with
the Middletons and eventually pay a visit to the Dashwoods, John and
Fanny. They are treated so kindly that Anne feels it is safe to break
the secret of Lucy's engagement to Edward.
Fanny Dashwood has hysterics and orders Lucy and
Anne out of her house. Edward's mother disinherits him because he will
not break his word to Lucy. He decides to take orders and offers to free
Lucy from her engagement, but Lucy will not give him up.
Charlotte Palmer's son is born, and she invites
Elinor and Marianne to accompany her mother on a visit to her country
house, Cleveland. Marianne falls ill there and seems near death. Colonel
Brandon is also staying at Cleveland and offers to fetch Mrs. Dashwood.
The Palmers leave their house, fearing infection
for the baby, and while Elinor awaits her mother's arrival, she is
amazed by a visit from Willoughby. He has heard of Marianne's illness
and has come to get news of her. He tells Elinor how bitterly he repents
of his conduct and how wretched his wife has made him; it was she who
dictated the cruel note which he sent to Marianne. Elinor is sorry for
him.
Marianne recovers and the family returns to
Barton Cottage. Eventually, Elinor tells Marianne about Willoughby's
repentant visit. Marianne is now sorry that the family has suffered on
her behalf.
One day, a servant tells them that Edward Ferrars
is married. Elinor tries to put him out of her mind; however, he
arrives at Barton Cottage and explains that Lucy did not marry him;
instead, she eloped with his brother, Robert.
Everything ends happily. Edward is reconciled to
his mother and marries Elinor. He takes orders and is given the living
at Delaford, Colonel Brandon's estate. Eventually Marianne agrees to
marry the colonel, and the two couples live happily, close in distance
and in friendship.
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I have taken this plot of the novel from this site.
https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/s/sense-and-sensibility/book-summary
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