Sense and Sensibility was Jane Austens first published novel It tells the story of the Dashwood sisters who fall on hard times after their father dies and their half brother inherits his house and fortune At the insistence of his wife Fanny John Dashwood reneges on the deathbed promise he made to his father to take care of his family and Mrs Dashwood must take her three daughters Margaret Elinor and Marianne to live on the kindness of distant rel...