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Which Jane Austen novel was first called Elinor and Marianne?
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Jane Austen, a 19th-century engraving likely derived from a portrait by her sister, Cassandra Austen, c. 1810.
The Jane Austen novel originally titled Elinor and Marianne is Sense and Sensibility.12
Austen began writing the work around 1795 as a novel-in-letters, naming it after the two sisters who serve as its protagonists. She later significantly revised the manuscript in 1809 before it was published anonymously in 1811.12