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Elinor and Anne: Emotional Isolation, Family, and Society in Sense and Sensibility and Persuasion
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2023-December-12
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In her first novel, Sense and Sensibility, and her last, Persuasion, Jane Austen centers the perspectives of gentry women, Elinor Dashwood and Anne Elliot, who were socially successful because of their ability to regulate their own emotions and influence those...
