Sense and Sensibility

Sense and Sensibility (working title: Elinor and Marianne) is the debut novel by English author Jane Austen, appearing in 1811. The novel is probably set between 1792 and 1797 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 a distant relative in Devon.