Jane Austen did not leave behind extensive writings on her reasons, views, methods and so on. We can only surmise why she did most of the things she did.
I think Jane Austen began an examination of romanticism and realism in Northanger Abbey, and continued that examination in Sense and Sensibility. In the former, she took the emotional content of books by authors such as Ann Radcllyffe, and showed they could be applied convincingly to the lives of ordinary girls much like those she knew and lived among. Catherine Moreland's life is purposely, though only implicitly, compared and contrasted with that of the romantic heroine of The Mysteries of Udolpho.
Northanger Abbey, however, depended to some extent on the reader's knowledge of the writings of the authors popular at the time, and so it was not entirely self contained. Without the background readers of that time had, its humor is not entirely accessible. In Sense and Sensibility, the comparison of the good sense of Elinor Dashwood with the romantic sensibilities of her sister, Marianne, is clear and complete within the novel, with no need to reference some other literature.
She is pointing out to her reader that the emotional contrivances of romanticism are unnecessary for emotional fulfillment. An ordinary English girl has in her life all the longing, anguish, and disappointment she needs, without artificial magnification of the feelings, and seeing a happy ending to her story is all the more satisfactory for the sense it could be real.
Austen, Jane. Sense & Sensibility. New York: Dover Publications, 1996.
There are 50 chapters in Austen's Sense and Sensibility.
I was trying to find the same thing myself.According to SearchLit, Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen is at a reading level of 12.7 (which comes out to be a grade level of 12th and up). Scholastic, however, considers it to be a grade level equivalent of 10th grade.
Sense and Sensibility was Jane Austen's first published book in 1811. The manuscript was published through Thomas Egerton of the Military Library publishing house. When the book was published, the author was written as only, "a Lady". A second edition was later advertised in 1813.
Jane Austen became popular, among people who liked fine literature, with the publication of the first book she published, Sense and Sensibility, in 1811.
Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility was published in 1811.
Jane Austen
"Elinor Dashwood" is a character in Jane Austen's novel "Sense and Sensibility."
Yes, Elinor Dashwood eventually marries Edward Ferrars in "Sense and Sensibility" by Jane Austen.
She started wrighting"Sense and Sensibility" in1795.
Jane Austen wrote Sense and Sensibility
Austen, Jane. Sense & Sensibility. New York: Dover Publications, 1996.
Jane Austen
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen is a novel that typically ranges from around 350 to 400 pages in length, depending on the edition and formatting.
Sense and Sensibility was the first published novel by Jane Austen, famous for writing Pride and Prejudice.
There are 50 chapters in Austen's Sense and Sensibility.
Edward Ferris is the love interest of Elinor Dashwood in Jane Austen's "Sense and Sensibility"