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Annotation:
Sussex
Category:
Places
| Type:
Historical
| Title:
Sense and Sensibility
(in Context)
| Author:
Jane Austen
| Ch:
Chapter 1
A prosperous county on England's southern coast and offering a quintessentially English landscape. O…
Annotation:
Park
Category:
Places
| Type:
Glossary Word
| Title:
Sense and Sensibility
(in Context)
| Author:
Jane Austen
| Ch:
Chapter 1
The fenced or hedged area surrounding the manor, a bucolic setting that might include some grazing. …
Annotation:
he intended to bequeath it
Category:
Custom & Law
| Type:
Historical
| Title:
Sense and Sensibility
(in Context)
| Author:
Jane Austen
| Ch:
Chapter 1
Inheritance is an issue of supreme importance to the landed gentry, as it is, along with money, to A…
Annotation:
seven thousand pounds
Category:
Money
| Type:
Historical
| Title:
Sense and Sensibility
(in Context)
| Author:
Jane Austen
| Ch:
Chapter 1
In view of the place money has in this and the other Austen novels, we need to try to convert £ in t…
Annotation:
moiety of his first wife's fortune was also secure…
Type:
Historical
| Title:
Sense and Sensibility
(in Context)
| Author:
Jane Austen
| Ch:
Chapter 1
"Moiety" is legally one-half, though it can vary in ordinary speech. The gist is that the interest o…
Annotation:
this child, who, in occasional visits with his fat…
Category:
Education
| Type:
Historical
| Title:
Sense and Sensibility
(in Context)
| Author:
Jane Austen
| Ch:
Chapter 1
The parents are John Dashwood and his wife. Austen takes a dim view of parents who indulge and spoil…
Annotation:
as a mark of his affection for the three girls, he…
Category:
Custom & Law
| Type:
Discussion
| Title:
Sense and Sensibility
(in Context)
| Author:
Jane Austen
| Ch:
Chapter 1
Austen is being sardonic. As a "mark of his affection" £1000 or $90,000 for each is less a mark than…
Annotation:
sanguine
Category:
Body
| Type:
Historical
| Title:
Sense and Sensibility
(in Context)
| Author:
Jane Austen
| Ch:
Chapter 1
Means optimistic here. The word, which derives from the Latin for blood, refers to the theory of the…
Annotation:
improvement
Category:
Education
| Type:
Glossary Word
| Title:
Sense and Sensibility
(in Context)
| Author:
Jane Austen
| Ch:
Chapter 1
The word (Search) and concept are central to Austen's fiction. The cardinal responsibility of, first…
Annotation:
mother-in-law
Type:
Glossary Word
| Title:
Sense and Sensibility
(in Context)
| Author:
Jane Austen
| Ch:
Chapter 1
Our "stepmother"; the sisters referred to here are in fact half-sisters.
Annotation:
well respected
Category:
Manners & Morals
| Type:
Discussion
| Title:
Sense and Sensibility
(in Context)
| Author:
Jane Austen
| Ch:
Chapter 1
Austen's ironic comment on a society that views as deserving of respect an "ill-disposed" but rich y…
Annotation:
Had he married a more amiable woman
Category:
Love & Marriage
| Type:
Discussion
| Title:
Sense and Sensibility
(in Context)
| Author:
Jane Austen
| Ch:
Chapter 1
The younger Dashwoods are moral clones. "Amiable" is understatement. Austen's severe comment represe…
Annotation:
but in HER mind there was a sense of honor so keen…
Category:
Mind
| Type:
Discussion
| Title:
Sense and Sensibility
(in Context)
| Author:
Jane Austen
| Ch:
Chapter 1
Had the the recently widowed Mrs. Dashwood possessed a merely common sensibility she would still hav…
Annotation:
to be the counsellor of her mother
Type:
Discussion
| Title:
Sense and Sensibility
(in Context)
| Author:
Jane Austen
| Ch:
Chapter 1
Indicating a somewhat ominous inversion in the parent-child relationship that is repeated in other A…
Annotation:
She had an excellent heart;—her disposition was af…
Category:
Mind
| Type:
Discussion
| Title:
Sense and Sensibility
(in Context)
| Author:
Jane Austen
| Ch:
Chapter 1
The "She" refers to Elinor, the daughter. Readers tend to forget that Elinor has an "excellent heart…
Annotation:
resolved never to be taught
Category:
Writing & Reading
| Type:
Discussion
| Title:
Sense and Sensibility
(in Context)
| Author:
Jane Austen
| Ch:
Chapter 1
Marianne has ample cultural precedent to trust in intuition and to resolve never to be taught the go…
Annotation:
The agony of grief
Category:
Mind
| Type:
Discussion
| Title:
Sense and Sensibility
(in Context)
| Author:
Jane Austen
| Ch:
Chapter 1
A disabling feature for Austen of the "romantic" temperament is its self-indulgence and tendency to …
Annotation:
could struggle, she could exert herself
Category:
Mind
| Type:
Discussion
| Title:
Sense and Sensibility
(in Context)
| Author:
Jane Austen
| Ch:
Chapter 1
Restraint requires "struggle" and "exertion." If Elinor's feelings are strong, the exertion must be …
Annotation:
romance
Category:
Mind
| Type:
Discussion
| Title:
Sense and Sensibility
(in Context)
| Author:
Jane Austen
| Ch:
Chapter 1
Marianne's "romance," which she has learned from her mother and with which she's infecting her young…
