Sense and Sensibility

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Elinor and Marianne Dashwood are two strikingly different sisters. Each discovers that their suitors have become engaged to other women and the story centres on the different ways they cope with this distress. All ends well, however, when Edward is released from his engagement and can marry Elinor and Marianne is won over by an old admirer.

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Jane Austen was born in Steventon rectory on 16 December 1775. Her family later moved to Bath, then to Southampton and finally to Chawton in Hampshire. She began writing Pride and Prejudice when she was twenty-two years old. It was originally called First Impressions and was initially rejected by the publishers and only published in 1813 after much revision. She published four of her novels in her lifetime, Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814) and Emma (1816). Jane Austen died on 18th July 1817. Northanger Abbey and Persuasion were both published posthumously in 1818.