Jane Austen’s novel Sense and Sensibility (1811) explores the contrast between sense (common sense) and sensibility (emotionality) through the characters of Elinor and Marianne Dashwood, two sisters who become impoverished after their father dies. Other important themes of the novel include social class, gender, and love. Like Austen’s other famous novels, Sense and Sensibility centers on the predicaments of young women living in an era of gendered social conventions and legal restrictions (such as the law of entail, which limited the transfer of property to male heirs) that often result in mercenary marriages.
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