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Written by [[Jane Austen]] and published in 1811, ''Sense and Sensibility'' is one of her best-known novels, not least because of the 1995 Ang Lee film ([[Sense and Sensibility (film)|which has its own page here]]). It tells the story of two sisters, Elinor and Marianne Dashwood, who, on the death of their father, are forced to move (along with their mother and younger sister) into rather more straightened circumstances. The novel follows Elinor's quiet, restrained love affair with Edward Ferrars (her sister-in-law's brother who is expected to marry a rich woman) and Marianne's more overtly-romantic love triangle with the dashing Willoughby and the older, reliable Colonel Brandon.