Sense and Sensibility

The Table of Contents is not part of the original book. The illustration on page 290 is missing from the book. The Introduction ends abruptly. Seems incomplete. Mr. Dashwood introduced him.— P. 219 . SENSE & SENSIBILITY BY JANE AUSTEN WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY AUSTIN DOBSON ILLUSTRATED BY HUGH THOMSON LONDON: MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 1902 First Edition with Hugh Thomson's Illustrations 1896 CONTENTS PAGE INTRODUCTION vii LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS xv 1 6 10 16 20 23 27 31 34 39 45 49 54 61 65 72 79 83 88 97 103 112 120 126 132 137 144 150 155 165 173 183 191 201 209 216 223 237 247 252 259 267 273 283 299 304 313 320 324 335 INTRODUCTION With the title of Sense and Sensibility is connected one of those minor problems which delight the cummin-splitters of criticism. In the Cecilia of Madame D'Arblay—the forerunner, if not the model, of Miss Austen—is a sentence which at first sight suggests some relationship to the name of the book which, in the present series, inaugurated Miss Austen's novels. 'The whole of this unfortunate business'—says a certain didactic Dr. Lyster, talking in capitals, towards the end of volume three of Cecilia —'has been the result of Pride and Prejudice ,' and looking to the admitted familiarity of Miss Austen with Madame D'Arblay's work, it has been concluded that Miss Austen borrowed from Cecilia , the title of her second novel. But here comes in the little problem to which we have referred. Pride and Prejudice it is true, was written and finished before Sense and Sensibility —its original title for several years being First Impressions . Then, in 1797, the author fell to work upon an older essay in letters la Richardson, called Elinor and Marianne , which she re-christened Sense and Sensibility. This, as we know, was her first published book; and whatever may be the connection between the title of Pride and Prejudice and the passage in Cecilia , there is an obvious connection between the title of Pride and Prejudice and the title of Sense and Sensibility . If Miss Austen re-christened Elinor and Marianne before she changed the title of First Impressions , as she well may have, it is extremely unlikely that the name of Pride and Prejudice has anything to do with Cecilia (which, besides, had been…