Which Jane Austin novel is about the affairs of the heart of Eleanor and Marianne Daswood?
Marianne Dashwood Marianne Dashwood Marianne Dashwood is a fictional character in the Jane Austen novel "Sense and Sensibility". The 16-year-old second daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Dashwood, she embodies the "sensibility" of the title, as opposed to her elder sister Elinor's "sense". She embraces spontaneity, excessive sensibility, love of nature, and romantic idealism: Marianne weeps dramatically when their family must depart from "dear, dear Norland", and later in the book, exclaims, "Oh! with what transporting sensations have I formerly seen them fall! How have I delighted, as I walked, to see them driven in showers about me by the wind! What
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine the intention of killing both Eleanor herself and her 4-year-old sister, Marianne. Eleanor survived; Marianne died. It transpires that their mother also died in the blaze: the weekly phone conversations have been entirely in Eleanor's imagination. The novel has been praised by critics. Jenny Colgan, reviewing it for "The Guardian", described it as a "a narrative full of quiet warmth and deep and unspoken sadness" with a "wonderful, joyful" ultimate message. Allan Massie of "The Scotsman" noted the book's unusual emphasis on "the importance of kindness", and found it to be reminiscent of a Jane Austen novel in its depiction