1. The document summarizes the major female characters in Jane Austen's novel Sense and Sensibility, including Elinor and Marianne Dashwood, their mother Mrs. Dashwood, and their friends and relatives. 2. Elinor is the sensible eldest daughter who falls in love with Edward Ferrars, while Marianne is the romantic second daughter who falls for John Willoughby. 3. The document provides descriptions of each character's personality and role in the story.

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

2. 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.

3.  Major Female Character of the novel
1. Elinore Dashwood
2. Marianne Dashwood
3. Margaret Dashwood
4. Mrs. Dashwood
5. Fanny Dashwood
6. Mrs. Ferrar
7. Mrs. Jenning
8. Lady Middleton
9. Mrs. Charlotte Palmer
10.Lucy Steel

4.  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.

5.  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.

6.  Margaret Dashwood
13 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.

7.  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.

8.  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.

9. 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.

10.  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.

11.  Lucy Steel  Ann Steel
She 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.

12.  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.