Sense And Sensibility
Jane Austen
Contributed by Jama Rearick
Overview
Author
Jane Austen
Year Published
1811
Type
Fiction
Genre
Romance
About the Title

The meaning of ‘Sense’ means the ability to act with restraint, judgement and reasoning while sensibility means to give way to feeling and emotion. These two qualities represent the two Heroines of the Novel; Elinor for Sense and Marianne for Sensibility. It should be understood that Jane Austen when writing Sense and sensibility initially named the title “Elinor and Marianne” before changing the title to what it is popularly known today. So as you can see Austen had the characters Marianne and Elinor in mind when she wrote Sense and sensibility.

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