In Jane Austen's first published novel, Sense and Sensibility, the story centers on the sisters Elinor and Marianne Dashwood. The sisters are forced to leave their home, and along with their mother and younger sister, they move, in reduced circumstances, to the west of England. Elinor, the "sense" of the pair, and Marianne, the "sensibility", or the romantic, of the story, must rely upon "good" marriages as means of support for the future. As their …showed first 75 words of 1392 total…

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