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Author: Jane Austen
First Published: 1811
Type of Work: Novel
Type of Plot: Social realism
Time of Work: The early nineteenth century
Setting: Devonshire, England
Principal Characters: Mrs. Henry Dashwood, Elinor Dashwood, Marianne Dashwood, Edward Ferrars, Robert Ferrars, John Willoughby, Colonel Brandon, Mrs. Jennings, Lucy Steele
Genres: Long fiction, Fiction of manners, Bourgeois fiction
Subjects: Values, Love or romance, Nineteenth century, Middle classes, Marriage, Betrayal, Manners or customs, Social life, Emotions, England or English people, Women’s issues, Sisters, Duty, Greed, Human behavior, Naivete
Locales: Devonshire, England

Sense and Sensibility is Jane Austen’s first published novel. It grew out of the sketch “Elinor and Marianne,” which was written in the 1790’s and was revised several times before its publication in 1811. The novel is written in the form of a comedy of manners, and in it the author satirizes the lifestyle of her characters with much humor and irony. Although it has a happy ending, Sense and Sensibility contains Jane Austen’s usual hardheadedness, which makes her fiction powerfully realistic and timeless.

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