'Marianne Dashwood', 'Fanny Price' and 'Anne Elliot' are characters created by which author?
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
Elinor Dashwood something out of the "conduct books" that were popular in the Regency England setting out the proper values for a young woman. Irvine noted that Austen did not entirely like the "conduct books", and it is doubtful she wanted a character who in the last chapters talks like a "conduct book" character to be representing her values. Following the death of Henry Dashwood, in the opening chapter, Elinor, Marianne, Margaret, and their mother are left nearly penniless by the girls' selfish and greedy sister-in-law, Fanny. Though their father had asked John Dashwood, his son and the sisters' half-brother, to make