"Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience or give it a more fascinating name call it hope."
Sense and Sensibility was published in 1811 by "a Lady". The lady in question was Jane Austen an English writer who is known for her
iconic romantic literature even after years of her death. She wrote her first novel Sense and Sensibility's original draft around the age of
nineteen and published it later on.
The story revolves around the Dashwood sisters Elinor and Marianne as they experience love and life with their different
personalities after their father's death and the loss of their home. However when the story continues these differences between
Elinor and Marianne sense and sensibility rationality and feeling start to seem much more vague.
"Who would not spout the family teapot in order to talk with Keats for an hour about poetry or with Jane Austen about the art of
fiction?"
Virginia Woolf
"Jane Austen is the pinnacle to which all other authors aspire."
J. K. Rowling