Sense and Sensibility

Conceived as an epistolary novel under the working title ‘Elinor and Marianne’, it would be some sixteen years before Austen's first work would emerge in its final narrative form – in 1811, published under the alias ‘A Lady’. Set on the cusp of the Age of Reason and the Romantic Era, embodying each in its sibling heroines, ‘Sense and Sensibility’ is a comedy of manners, exploring the intricate relations between status, heritance and romance in Georgian England.