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Cassandra Austen’s Memorandum records, ‘Sense & Sensibility begun Nov. 1797,’ and adds that ‘I am sure that something of the same story & characters had been written earlier & called Elinor & Marianne.’1 The novel was not published until 1811; and so, like Northanger Abbey, it is one of Jane Austen’s early ‘gradual performances’.
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© 1973 Darrel Mansell
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Mansell, D. (1973). Sense and Sensibility: ‘Character’ in the Novels. In: The Novels of Jane Austen. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-01834-5_3
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