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"Miss Dashwood had a delicate complexion, regular features, and a remarkable pretty figure. Marianne was still handsomer. Her form, though not so correct as her sister's...was more striking."
As the title of Jane Austen's first published novel suggests, the difference between two sisters, Elinor and Marianne Dashwood, lies not only in their appearance but also in their temperament. Yet Sense and Sensibility not only contrasts Elinor's good sense, her readiness to observe social forms and Marianne's impulsive candour, her warm but excessive sensibility; it also highlights their shared predicament in the face of a competitive marriage market. The sisters' parallel experience of love, and its threatened loss, causes both to readjust and question their own values. Jane Austen's satirical powers of observation and expression spare no one in this lively study of the constraints placed on gentry women in the eighteenth century.
Ros Ballaster's introduction to this new Penguin Classics edition discusses Sense… Read More

Passionate and pain-filled, ferocious in their feeling, Jane Eyre and Villette celebrate the individual. In Shirley Charlotte Bronte chose to look wider to examine "the warped nature of things".
Written after the deaths of Branwell, Emily and Anne, she found it a struggle to finish and in her portraits of Shirley Keeldar and Caroline Helstone Charlotte Bronte poured out her feelings for her dead sisters. Nevertheless, it is a historical novel which depicts an uneasy era of Luddite riots, bad harvests and social unrest as well as Charlotte Bronte's belief that the denial of the world of feeling is responsible for much of society's suffering.
Tense, romantic, atmospheric, ringing with imaginative power, Charlotte Bronte's story of the two women and the men they loved grips until the last page.