![]() Jane revised the text in Steventon in 1797-8, and again in Chawton in 1809-10. By some accounts it was first written as a novel-in-letters, but no evidence of this survives. Jane Austen originally drafted the novel in 1795 whilst living in Steventon, at which time it was called Elinor & Marianne. The story charts their experiences in love, loss and a growing understanding of the world, themselves and each other, playing in particular on the internal conflicts between the qualities of sense and sensibility that each sister displays. After the death of their father they are forced to leave their family estate and to move, with their mother and younger sister, to a cottage in rural Devonshire. It is the story of two sisters, Elinor and Marianne Dashwood, as they come of age. ![]() Sense & Sensibility was Jane Austen’s first published novel. ![]()
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