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 Title page from the original 1811 edition | |
| Author | Jane Austen |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Genre | Romance novel |
| Publisher | Thomas Egerton, Military Library (Whitehall, London) |
Publication date | 30 October 1811[1] |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
| OCLC | 44961362 |
| Followed by | Pride and Prejudice |
| Text | Sense and Sensibility at Wikisource |
Sense and Sensibility (working title; Elinor and Marianne) is the first novel by the English author Jane Austen, published in 1811. It was published anonymously: By A Lady appears on the title page where the author's name might have been.
The novel is probably set between 1792 and 1797[2] and follows the three Dashwood sisters and their widowed mother as they are forced to leave the family estate in Sussex and move to a modest cottage on the property of distant relative in Devon. There the two eldest girls experience love and heartbreak that tries the contrasting characters of both.
- ^ "This day was published, in three vols. 12mo. price 15s. in boards, Sense and Sensibility, a Novel; By Lady A— Published by Thos. Egerton, Whitehall; and may be had of every bookseller in the United Kingdom". Pilot (London). 30 October 1811. p. 1 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ Le Faye, Deirdre (2002). Jane Austen: The World of Her Novels. London: Frances Lincoln Publishers. p. 155. ISBN 0-7112-1677-0.