"The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid." - Jane Austen Sense and Sensibility Chapter 1 Mr Dashwood and his family live in an estate at Norland Park. The estate is not theirs but from an old ... her character was described in the beginning too, as was Elinor's, maybe not in the first sentence, but in the first chapter indeed. It struck me that Jane Austen chose to write and spell out their characters and their character flaws as opposed to just let us experience them for ourselves while reading. I can only imagine that ... lady in...

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