Two sisters, Elinor and Marianne Dashwood (Elinor representing ''sense'' and Marianne ''sensibility''), along with their mother and younger sister Margaret, are left impoverished after the death of their father, and the family is forced to move to a country cottage, offered to them by a generous relative.ThefamilyofDashwoodhadlongbeensettledinSussex.Theirestatewas large,andtheirresidencewasatNorlandPark,inthecentreoftheirproperty, where,formanygenerations,theyhadlivedinsorespectableamannerasto engagethegeneralgoodopinionoftheirsurroundingacquaintance.Thelate ownerofthisestatewasasingleman,wholivedtoaveryadvancedage,and whoformanyyearsofhislife,hadaconstantcompanionandhousekeeperinhis sister.Butherdeath,whichhappenedtenyearsbeforehisown,producedagreat