SENSE AND SENCIBILITY (non illustrated)

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Colonel Brandon shows his admiration by offering Edward the living a clergyman's income of Delaford parsonage so that he might one day be able to afford to marry Lucy after he takes orders. Charlotte Palmer, at her husband's estate, called Cleveland. Marianne, still in misery over Willoughby's marriage, goes walking in the rain and becomes dangerously ill.

She is diagnosed with putrid fever, and it is believed that her life is in danger. Elinor writes to Mrs. Dashwood to explain the gravity of the situation, and Colonel Brandon volunteers to go and bring Marianne's mother to Cleveland to be with her. In the night, Willoughby arrives and reveals to Elinor that his love for Marianne was genuine and that losing her has made him miserable.

He elicits Elinor's pity because his choice has made him unhappy, but she is disgusted by the callous way in which he talks of Miss Williams and his own wife. He also reveals that his aunt said she would have forgiven him if he married Miss Williams but that he refused. Marianne recovers from her illness, and Elinor tells her of Willoughby's visit. Marianne realises that she could never have been happy with Willoughby's immoral, erratic, and inconsiderate ways.

She values Elinor's more moderated conduct with Edward and resolves to model herself after Elinor's courage and good sense. Edward arrives and reveals that, after his disinheritance, Lucy jilted him in favour of his now wealthy younger brother, Robert. Edward and Elinor marry, and later Marianne marries Colonel Brandon, having gradually come to love him. The two couples live as neighbors, with both sisters and husbands in harmony with each other. Willoughby considers Marianne as his ideal but the narrator tells the reader not to suppose that he was never happy.

Jane Austen wrote the first draft of the novel in the form of a novel-in-letters epistolary form perhaps as early when she was about 19 years old, or , at age 21, and is said to have given it the title Elinor and Marianne. She later changed the form to a narrative and the title to Sense and Sensibility. Austen drew inspiration for Sense and Sensibility from other novels of the s that treated similar themes, including Adam Stevenson's "Life and Love" which he had written about himself and a relationship that was not meant to be.

Jane West 's A Gossip's Story , which features one sister full of rational sense and another sister of romantic, emotive sensibility, is considered to have been an inspiration as well. There are further textual similarities, described in a modern edition of West's novel. Elinor is described as a character with great "sense" although Marianne, too, is described as having sense , and Marianne is identified as having a great deal of "sensibility" although Elinor, too, feels deeply, without expressing it as openly.

By changing the title, Austen added "philosophical depth" to what began as a sketch of two characters. Sense and Sensibility, much like Austen's other fiction, has attracted a large body of criticism from many different critical approaches. Early reviews of Sense and Sensibility focused on the novel as providing lessons in conduct which would be debated by many later critics as well as reviewing the characters. The Norton Critical Edition of Sense and Sensibility, edited by Claudia Johnson, contains a number of reprinted early reviews in its supplementary material.

An "Unsigned Review" in the February Critical Review praises Sense and Sensibility as well written with well supported and drawn characters, realistic, and with a "highly pleasing" plot in which "the whole is just long enough to interest the reader without fatiguing. Dashwood, the mother of the Dashwood sisters, as well as Elinor, and claims that Marianne's extreme sensibility makes her miserable. In this author's opinion, Austen's favoring of Elinor's temperament over Marianne's provides the lesson.

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Pollock's review from Frasier's Magazine , titled "British Novelists," becomes what editor Claudia Johnson terms an "early example of what would become the customary view of Sense and Sensibility. Jennings, even commenting on the humor of Mr. Palmer and his "silly wife. He also criticizes the Steele sisters for their vulgarity.

An anonymous piece titled "Miss Austen" published in in The Englishwoman's Domestic Magazine departs from other early criticism in its sympathizing with Marianne over Elinor, claiming that Elinor is "too good" of a character.

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Meynell claims that Austen deals in lesser characters and small matters because "that which makes life, art, and work trivial is a triviality of relations. Austen biographer Claire Tomalin argues that Sense and Sensibility has a "wobble in its approach", which developed because Austen, in the course of writing the novel, gradually became less certain about whether sense or sensibility should triumph. She also acknowledges that Willoughby, with all his faults, continues to love and, in some measure, appreciate Marianne.

For these reasons, some readers find Marianne's ultimate marriage to Colonel Brandon an unsatisfactory ending. The Dashwood sisters stand apart as being virtually the only characters capable of intelligent thought and any sort of deep thinking. Many critics explore Sense and Sensibility in relation to authors and genres popular during Austen's time. One of the most popular forms of fiction in Austen's time was epistolary fiction.

This is a style of writing in which all of the action, dialogue, and character interactions are reflected through letters sent from one or more of the characters. In her book Romantic Correspondence: Women, Politics, and the Fiction of Letters, Mary Favret explores Austen's fraught relationship with epistolary fiction, claiming that Austen "wrestled with epistolary form" in previous writings and, with the publication of Sense and Sensibility, "announced her victory over the constraints of the letter.

A common theme of Austen criticism has been on the legal aspects of society and the family, particularly wills, the rights of first and second sounds, and lines of inheritance. Gene Ruoff's book Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility explores these issues in an entire book-length discussion on the novel.

Ruoff's first two chapters deal extensively on the subject of wills and on the discourse of inheritance. These topics reveal what Ruoff calls "the cultural fixation on priority of male birth. Ruoff observes that, within the linear family, the order of male birth decides issues of eligibility and merit.

Feminist critics have long been engaged in conversations about Jane Austen, and Sense in Sensibility has figured in these discussions, especially around the patriarchal system of inheritance and earning. Gilbert and Gubar read the beginning Sense and Sensibility as a retelling of King Lear from a female perspective and contend that these "reversals imply that male traditions need to be evaluated and reinterpreted from a female perspective. John Dashwood, deprives his sisters from their home as well as promised income.

They also point to the "despised" Mrs. Ferrars' tampering with the patriarchal line of inheritance in her disowning of her eldest son, Edward Ferrars, as proof that this construction is ultimately arbitrary. Ferrars and Lucy Steele demonstrate how women can "themselves become agents of repression, manipulators of conventions, and survivors.

Ferrars and Lucy Steele must participate in the same patriarchal system that oppresses them. When their father dies, the family estate passes to John, and the Dashwood women are left in reduced circumstances. The novel follows the Dashwood sisters to their new home, a cottage on a distant relative's property, where they experience both romance and heartbreak.

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The contrast between the sisters' characters is eventually resolved as they each find love and lasting happiness. Through the events in the novel, Elinor and Marianne encounter the sense and sensibility of life and love. Austen lived her entire life as part of a close-knit family located on the lower fringes of the English gentry.

She was educated primarily by her father and older brothers as well as through her own reading. The steadfast support of her family was critical to her development as a professional writer. Her artistic apprenticeship lasted from her teenage years until she was about 35 years old. Read more Read less.

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