Sense and Sensibility (1811), Jane Austen's fIrst published novel, looks at the contrast between reason and emotion in the persons of two of the three Dashwood sisters Elinor and Marianne.
Austen's Mansfield Park (1814), in which meek, poor Fanny Price wins through simple virtue both the love and hand of country heir Edmund Bertram.
Emma (1816), in which Austen's well-to-do heroine plays matchmaker for a lower-class friend-until she realizes that she is herself In love with the man her friend has chosen.
Northanger Abbey and Persuasion (1818), Austen's posthumously-published novels, that are respectively a sly parody.....
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