“I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way.”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

 

What most people don't know is that this was the first novel Austen wrote — or at least the first she developed seriously, beginning it when she was around sixteen. Marianne gets talked about as the cautionary tale. I'm not sure Austen saw her that way. Read closely, and see what you think.

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