Sense and Sensibility by Francesca Segal

She suggested I start with Sense and Sensibility, so I did. I must endeavour to read some Austen and my friend will attempt to read Wuthering Heights, a book she has heretofore avoided. But now I have made a pledge with a friend who works at the Royal Society of Literature. Francesca Segal is a journalist and writer. Somewhere along the line at school I passed through Northanger Abbey without retaining much impression of it. Marianne, emotional and sentimental, the epitome of sensibility, loses her heart to a scoundrel who jilts. Jane Austen’s first published work, Sense and Sensibility, published in 1811, is more straightforward than most of her later works. I am afraid, - replied Elinor, -that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its. I have made efforts on and off over the years and never found her to my taste. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY FRANCESCA SEGAL VINTAGE CLASSICS AUSTEN SERIES - all six of Jane Austens major novels, beautifully designed and introduced by our finest contemporary writers. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen and Francesca Segal available in Trade Paperback on, also read synopsis and reviews.

Friends beg me to keep trying, anxious for me not to miss what they tell me is an unrivalled view of a luminous literary landscape. Reviewed by Pauline Melville in Slightly Foxed Issue 62. Through their experiences of love the sisters learn that sense must mix with sensibility if they are to find personal happiness in a society where status and money govern the rules of love. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY FRANCESCA SEGAL VINTAGE CLASSICS AUSTEN SERIES - all six of Jane Austen's major novels, beautifully designed and introduced by our finest contemporary writers. Meanwhile Elinor, always sensitive to social convention, is struggling to conceal her own romantic disappointment, even from those closest to her. Marianne Dashwood is passionate and impetuous and when she falls in love with the dashing but unsuitable John Willoughby she ignores her older sister Elinor’s warning that her impulsive behaviour leaves her open to gossip.

Sense and Sensibility by Francesca Segal