Summary of the Book This masterpiece of Jane Austen has been adapted into TV shows and major motion pictures several times. It was penned by Austen under the pseudonym, A Lady. Sense and Sensibility is the story of two gorgeous Dashwood sisters, Elinor and Marianne. It is set in England between 1792 and 1797. Mrs. Dashwood and her three lovely daughters have to leave Norland and move to Barton Park. They have no other choice. Elinor is the eldest of the sisters, who is left lovesick, as she has to live far away from her lover Edward. But the sisters do end up making new friends in Barton Park eventually. Colonel Brandon is a 35 year old bachelor, who is mesmerized by Marianne’s prettiness. Marianne is an impulsive seventeen-year-old, who worships the very existence of romantic idealism. She is captivated by the exceptionally handsome John Willoughby. In the meanwhile, Anne and Lucy Steele come to visit the Dashwoods. The two egocentric sisters tell Elinor that Lucy is covertly engaged to Edward Ferrars. Elinor finds herself inconsolable, but she keeps her misery at guard so that her family isn’t wrecked emotionally even more. Sense and Sensibility describes the profoundest of human emotions intensely.
About Jane Austen Jane Austen was born in England in the year 1775. Her books continue to sell across the world to the present day. Austen penned twenty-nine works from the year 1787 to 1793 in three bound notebooks, it is today known as Juvenilia. From the year 1793, Austen started writing more erudite pieces. She published First Impressions in 1796, and later Pride and Prejudice. Some of her other notable works are Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, and Persuasion. She passed away at the age of 41.
Jane Austen (16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817) 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. Austen's plots often explore the dependence of women on marriage in the pursuit of favorable social standing and economic security. Her works critique the novels of sensibility of the second half of the 18th century and are part of the transition to 19th-century literary realism. With the publications 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 another, eventually titled Sanditon, but died before its completion. Her novels have rarely been out of print, although they were published anonymously and brought her little fame during her lifetime. A significant transition in her posthumous reputation occurred in 1869, fifty-two years after her death, when her nephew's publication of A Memoir of Jane Austen introduced her to a wider audience.
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