M.K. Bhavnagar University

NAME :- Pandya Dharmishtha D. CLASS:- M.A. Part-1 (Sem-2) ROLL NO.:- 24YEAR :- 2016 PAPER NO.:- 5 (The Romantic Literature) TOPIC :- Female character of Sense and Sensibility

SUBMITTED:- Department of English

Sense and sensibility -Jane Austen

Jane Austen was born on 16 December 1775 and died in 18 July 1817.

She was English novelist, and world renowned English author

Jane Austen's first novel.Romantic fiction.The Dashwood sister

central character of the novel.

Major Female Character of the novel

1. Elinore Dashwood2. Marianne Dashwood3. Margaret Dashwood4. Mrs. Dashwood5. Fanny Dashwood6. Mrs. Ferrar7. Mrs. Jenning 8. Lady Middleton9. Mrs. Charlotte Palmer10.Lucy Steel

Elinor Dashwood 18 year old, She is sensible and reserved

eldest daughter of Mr. & Mrs. Henry Dashwood.

She is the heroin of the Austen’s novel.

She become attached to Edward Ferrars, the brother-in-low of her elder half brother John. Always feeling a keep sense of responsibility to her family and her friends.

She fails in love of Edward and when she comforts and support her younger sister Marianne.

Marianne Dashwood 16 year old, Second daughter of Mr. & Mrs.

Henry Dashwood. She is attracted to young

handsome, romantically spirited Willoughby and colonel Brandon.

She is spontaneity, excessive, sensibility and romantic idealism

Lead her to fall in love with the debaucheries John Willoughby. She decides her conduct

should be more like that of her elder sister, Elinor.

Margaret Dashwood13 year old.Good humored

youngest daughter of Mr. & Mrs. Henry Dashwood.

Margaret is also try to Marianne’s romantic tendencies but not expected to be as clever as her sisters when she grows older.

Mrs. Dashwood

40 year old,She was a kind and

loving mother of Elinor, Marianne and Margaret.

Second wife of Henry Dashwood.

She has inherited no fortune of her own but wants the best further daughter and shares Marianne romentic sensiblities.

Fanny Dashwood Mrs. Ferrar

Selfish, snobbish and manipulative wife of John Dashwood.

Sister of Edward and Robert Ferrers.

The wealthy, manipulative mother of Edward, Robert , Fanny.

Who disinherits her first son when he refuses to marry a rich heiress.

Mrs. Jenning

She was mother of Lady Middleton and Mrs. Charlotte Palmer.

A widow who has married of all her children, she spends most of her time visiting her daughter and their family, especially the Middleton.

She and he son-in-low Sir John Middleton, take an active interest in the romantic affairs.

Lady Middleton Mrs. Charlotte

Palmer The genteel but reserved wife

of Sir John Middleton A distant relation of the

Dashwood who lives at Barton cottage with four spoiled children.

She does not share Sir John love for company, and finds that most people are not he liking.

She was daughter of Mrs. Jenning and young sister of Lady Middleton.

Wife of Mr. palmer Mr. palmer is jolly but empty-

headed and laugh at inappropriate things such as her husbands continual rudeness to her and to others.

Lucy Steel Ann SteelShe was silly, selfish and

insecure young woman She has been secretly

engage to Edward for four years but she ultimately marries his brother Robert Ferrars, once Edward disinherited.

Lucy Steel’s older, and unmarried sister who accidentally reveals.

Her sister’s secret engagement to Edward Ferrars.

Mrs. Smith Miss Morton the wealthy aunt of Mr. Willoughby who disowns him for seducing and abandoning the young Eliza Williams, Colonel Brandon's ward.

wealthy woman whom Mrs. Ferrars wants her eldest son, Edward, and later Robert, to marry.

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