Which Jane Austen novel begins 'The family of Dashwood had long been settled in Sussex'?
"to commit yourself farther, & not to think of accepting him unless you really do like him. Anything is to be preferred or endured rather than marrying without Affection"". The English scholar Douglas Bush wrote that Austen had ""had a very high ideal of the love that should unite a husband and wife ... All of her heroines ... know in proportion to their maturity, the meaning of ardent love"". A possible autobiographical element in ""Sense and Sensibility"" occurs when Elinor Dashwood contemplates that ""the worse and most irremediable of all evils, a connection for life"" with an unsuitable man."
"first Austen title to be republished in England after her death, and the first illustrated Austen produced in Britain, in Richard Bentley's Standard Novels series of 1833. The novel continued in publication throughout the 19th, 20th and early 21st centuries and has many times been illustrated, excerpted, abridged, and adapted for stage and film. Henry Dashwood, his second wife, and their three daughters live for many years with Henry's wealthy bachelor uncle. That uncle decides, in late life, to will the use and income only of his property first to Henry, then to Henry's first son John Dashwood (by his"
"the product of Mr. Dashwood's first marriage, and his young son, the four Dashwood women need to look for a new home. They have the opportunity to rent a modest home, Barton Cottage, on the property of a distant relative, Sir John Middleton. There they experience love, romance, and heartbreak. The novel is likely set in southwest England, London and Sussex between 1792 and 1797. The novel, which sold out its first print run of 750 copies in the middle of 1813, marked a success for its author. It had a second print run later that year. It was the"
"child of his first wife. Before expiring from his shark wounds, the elder Dashwood asks John to take care of his stepmother and half-sisters. John initially agrees to do so but is soon influenced by his greedy wife Fanny into giving the girls nothing at all. John and Fanny move into Norland, prompting the scorned Dashwood women to seek living space elsewhere. Mrs. Dashwood's cousin Sir John Middleton invites her to stay at a cottage situated on an archipelago off the coast of Devonshire. Although Devonshire is considered to have England's highest concentration of sea monsters, Mrs. Dashwood accepts the"
"with her single mother, Libby, above a Chinese restaurant in Chinatown, New York City. Believing it to be in his best interest, her mother had left Daphne's father seventeen years earlier because of his family's disapproval of their relationship; ultimately, his father's manager threw her out of the house, without Libby having a chance to tell him that she was pregnant with their daughter. Daphne flies to London to get to know her father, Lord Henry Dashwood, who recently inherited an Earldom but has disclaimed his seat in the House of Lords to run for election to the House of"
"or at all, and that Austen could repurchase the manuscript for the £10 he had paid her and find another publisher. She did not have the resources to buy the copyright back at that time, but was able to purchase it in 1816. Around early 1809 Austen's brother Edward offered his mother and sisters a more settled life – the use of a large cottage in Chawton village that was part of Edward's nearby estate, Chawton House. Jane, Cassandra and their mother moved into Chawton cottage on 7 July 1809. Life was quieter in Chawton than it had been since"
"United Kingdom where an event known as “The Alteration” has turned the creatures of the sea against mankind. In addition, this unexplained event spawns numerous “sea monsters,” including sea serpents, giant lobsters, and man-eating jellyfish. The wealthy Henry Dashwood lives on his estate, Norland Park, with his second wife and their three daughters - Elinor, Marianne, and Margaret. Dashwood embarks on a journey to discover the source of The Alteration, but is attacked by a hammerhead shark and killed. Upon his death the estate passes not to Mrs. Dashwood and her daughters but rather to Mr. Dashwood's son John, the"
"in Sussex from Oliver Cromwell's soldiers, spawned her most famous work, the Mantlemass series (1970–1988) including her Guardian Prize-winning book. Some other books were ""Hetty"" (1956), ""Storm from the West"" (1963), ""Three and One to Carry"" (1964), and ""Charity at Home"" (1965). One of her last books, ""The Forest - Ashdown in East Sussex"", published by Sweethaws Press in 1989, gives a detailed account of Ashdown Forest. In the introduction to the book, Christopher Robin Milne notes that Willard had moved from her home on the Sussex Downs to the edge of Ashdown Forest in 1956 and that her new"
"was born in Shirley, Derbyshire, his father was from Dorset and the family moved to Dorchester, Dorset in 1880. The family then moved just across the Somerset border to Montacute in 1885, but Powys maintained a connection with Dorset because he attended Sherborne School, Sherborne, Dorset. Several of his novels, including ""Ducdame"" (1925), ""Wolf Solent"" (1929), ""Weymouth Sands"" (1934) and ""Maiden Castle"" (1936) are set in Dorset, while Powys's first novel ""Wood and Stone"" is dedicated to Thomas Hardy. ""Maiden Castle"", which is set in Dorchester, was begun in 1934 after Powys's return from America. He initially lived in Dorset,"
"the rest of his youth Powys lived in Montacute, just over the Dorset border in Somerset. Also in the 1961 Preface Powys records the fact that he and his brother Littleton would often ""scamper home"" on a Sunday from school in Sherborne via Yeovil: ""Sherborne was five miles from Montacute; and Yeovil was five miles from Montacute"". The seaside resort of Weymouth is the main setting of his novel ""Weymouth Sands"" (1934, published as ""Jobber Skald"" in England) while ""Maiden Castle"" (1935), which alludes to Thomas Hardy's ""Mayor of Casterbridge"", is set in Dorchester (Hardy's Casterbridge). Powys had first settled"
"Jane Austen's unfinished novel ""Sanditon"" is an example of that. Later, Queen Victoria's long-standing patronage of the Isle of Wight and Ramsgate in Kent ensured that a seaside residence was considered as a highly fashionable possession for those wealthy enough to afford more than one home. The extension of this form of leisure to the middle and working classes began with the development of the railways in the 1840s, which offered cheap fares to fast-growing resort towns. In particular, the completion of a branch line to the small seaside town of Blackpool from Poulton led to a sustained economic and"
"in Dorchester, after returning from America in 1934. These two works, along with ""Wolf Solent"" and ""A Glastonbury Romance"" (1932) make up Powys's four main Wessex novels. A Further indication of the importance of familiar places in Powys's fiction is that Glastonbury is just a few miles north of Montacute. The novel begins with its eponymous, thirty-five-year-old hero on a train returning to his native Dorset to Ramsgard (Sherborne). This follows the loss of his job as a history teacher in London, following an outburst in class in which “he found himself pouring forth a torrent of wild, indecent invective"
"the estate of Cherrytrees near Yetholm in the Scottish Borders, when a party of dragoons led by Lieutenant Creighton (the Captain John Creighton or Creichton whose memoirs were written up by Jonathan Swift in 1731) arrived late at night. Mrs Kerr hurriedly concealed Williamson in bed alongside her eighteen-year-old daughter, disguising him with her own nightcap, and went downstairs to ""soften the hearts of the soldiery with liquor"". While Creighton's men were searching the house, the story ran, Williamson and Miss Kerr became more intimately acquainted, with the result that he was later compelled to marry her. She was in"
"features in the list of subscribers to an 1826 novel entitled ""Edward"", attributed to the socially advanced author ""The Duchess of Duras"" (Claire de Duras) and translated from French. The 1853 edition (""second thousand"") of ""Earlswood"" is signed from Sidcup, Kent, 12 June 1852, and bears a dedication to ""The Right Honourable the Countess of Ellesmere and to her revered mother, the Lady Charlotte Greville"", referring to the former, who can be identified as the wife of Francis Egerton, 1st Earl of Ellesmere, a politician and patron of the arts, as a ""friend and benefactress"". Lady Ellesmere lived at Hatchford"
"in actuality he was from a small planet somewhere in the vicinity of Betelgeuse. Thomas Paine Kydd, the hero of the Kydd series of naval adventure novels written by Julian Stockwin, starts off as a young wig-maker from Guildford who is pressed into service and thus begins a life at sea. ""Atonement"" is set in Surrey. The late Poet Laureate Sir John Betjeman mentions Camberley in his poem ""A Subaltern's Lovesong"", while Carshalton forms the literary backdrop to many of the poems by James Farrar. In J.K. Rowling's ""Harry Potter"" series, the home of Harry's pernicious relatives, the Dursleys, is"
"along with their children, Marianne, Margaret Emily ""Meta"", Florence and Julia, moved into the house (then numbered 42 Plymouth Grove) in June 1850, after the publication of Elizabeth's first novel, ""Mary Barton"". However, they had lived in Manchester for some time previously as William Gaskell's job of assistant Minister at Cross Street Unitarian Chapel, required the family to move from Knutsford, in neighbouring Cheshire. The family had stayed at two different locations in Manchester, both of which have now been demolished. 84 Plymouth Grove's spacious accommodation concerned Gaskell, who, despite calling the house ""a beauty"", was concerned about residing in"
"was betrothed left him, and in order to win her back the man tried to impress her by commissioning an extra storey to his new home, thus assuring her of a greater status as the wife of a 'property owner'. As the story goes, he was unsuccessful in this, and she never returned to him. Ashill lies approximately two miles from Uffculme and Kentisbeare. It was soul/R&B singer Joss Stone's teenage home (specifically, the hamlet of Rull, approximately half a mile away). Ashill, Devon Ashill is a village located in the parish of Uffculme, in the English county of Devon."
"Sense and Sensibility Sense and Sensibility is a novel by Jane Austen, published in 1811. It was published anonymously; ""By A Lady"" appears on the title page where the author's name might have been. It tells the story of the Dashwood sisters, Elinor (age 19) and Marianne (age 16 1/2) as they come of age. They have an older, stingy half-brother, John, and a younger sister, Margaret, 13. The novel follows the three Dashwood sisters as they must move with their widowed mother from the estate on which they grew up, Norland Park. Because Norland is passed down to John,"
"""Tunstall hamlet at that period, in the reign of old King Henry VI., ""wore much the same appearance as it wears today""."" In south-east Suffolk, England, 18 miles NE of Ipswich, less than 10 miles from the North Sea a ""Tunstall"" is located with an accompanying forest. Stevenson and his family had visited Suffolk in 1873. The similarity of place-names near this Tunstall, Suffolk to place-names in the novel also suggest that this is Stevenson's Tunstall: Kettley, Risingham and Foxham are probably Kettleburgh, Framlingham and Farnham in actuality. The identities of Shoreby-on-the-Till and Holywood are probably Orford and Leiston respectively."
"of residency in the parish, Sir Thomas conveniently overlooks his earlier plan, before he was forced to sell the Mansfield living to pay off Tom's debts, that Edmund should draw the income from both parishes. This tension is never resolved. Austen's own father had sustained two livings, itself an example of mild pluralism. It is generally assumed that Sir Thomas Bertram's home, Mansfield Park, being a newly built property, had been erected on the proceeds of the British slave trade. It was not an old structure like Rushworth's Sotherton Court, or the estate homes described in Austen's other novels, like"
"Manydown Manydown — or Manydown Park — was an ancient manor in Wootton St Lawrence, Hampshire, England. The fortunes of the estate were associated with those of the Wither family for more than 400 years. Author Jane Austen (1775–1817) was a frequent visitor at the Manydown great house ""circa"" 1799–1806 and received her only proposal of marriage there. The manor of Manydown at Wootton was a possession of the prior and convent of St. Swithun from the time of the Domesday Book (1086). (A Manor of Wootton was probably created for Ethelric the thegn in the year 958, long before"
"an early version of ""Pride and Prejudice"" and an honor accorded to few. In 1805 changes abounded for the Austen and Lloyd families. Many years had now passed since James Austen's first wife had died and he had remarried again, choosing the younger Miss Mary Lloyd to be his second wife. With The Rev, George Austen's retirement and his family's to Bath in 1801, James had taken over both the Deane and Steventon, Hampshire holding and his growing family now lived in the Steventon parsonage. It was while they were living in Bath, Somerset that Mr. Austen finally succumbed to"
"and it is featured in ""The Well-Beloved"" (1897). Joseph Drew wrote a historical novel ""The Poisoned Cup"" ""a quaint tale of old Weymouth and Sandsfoot Castle"" (1876), ""The Rival Queens"", an account of the life of Mary Queen of Scots (1880), and several other popular works on religion, history and science. The novelist John Cowper Powys's novel ""Weymouth Sands"" (1934) is set in Weymouth, where he ""was more ""at home"" than anywhere else in the world"". Powys's paternal grandmother lived in Weymouth and the family lived in nearby Dorchester from 1880 to 1885. The novelist Gerald Basil Edwards spent the"
"fiction. It is mentioned in several Sherlock Holmes novels. In ""The Hound of the Baskervilles"", Watson and his companions Dr. Mortimer and Sir Henry Baskerville leave for Dartmoor from Paddington, while in ""The Boscombe Valley Mystery"", Holmes and Watson leave the station for a train to Boscombe Valley near Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire. The mystery novel ""4.50 From Paddington"" (1957) by Agatha Christie begins with a murder witnessed by a passenger on a train from Paddington. One of The Railway Series books, ""The Eight Famous Engines"", contains a story about Gordon, Duck and a foreign engine debating which station London is. Duck"
"eighteen novels, with the latest having been published in February 2018. After losing her family in a tragic motor accident in California, fifteen-year-old Mary Russell goes to live with her aunt in Sussex, England. Wandering the Sussex Downs in April 1915, she literally runs across fifty-four-year-old Sherlock Holmes, who has retired from his London practice and keeps bees. The two quickly become fast friends, Russell finding in Holmes a kindred spirit and steadfast teacher and Holmes finding in Russell a quick mind and a worthy apprentice in the art of detecting. By the time Russell enters Oxford University in the"
"Salusbury family The Salusbury family is an Anglo-Welsh family notable for their social prominence, wealth, literary contributions and philanthropy. The early history of the Salusburies is uncertain, though they possibly sprang from Herefordshire, given the election of John Salusbury to represent Leominster in the House of Commons in 1416. By 1334, they were settled at Lleweni. Thomas Salusbury fought at the Battle of Blackheath (1497) and was knighted by Henry VII and appointed steward of the Lordship of Denbigh. After the establishment of Henry VIII as the new King of England, the Crown began to favour Welshmen for positions at"
"lines. The story's central location was set at Steventon rectory where Austen was raised. While it had been demolished in 1824, Jarrold and his crew ""fortunately found a wonderful house that was very like the original... We honed the script as well to make it as practical as possible."" Stewart believed that the Austen house expressed their status and wealth, ""I think that you will lose the central thrust of the story unless you understand the status of the Austen's and that they are pretty poor. Jane spent all her formative years there and that was the place that influenced"
"born in Surrey, a small New England town. Surrey is quiet and isolated, granting a young woman little intellectual stimulation. Cassandra escapes the boredom of domestic life through stories of adventure and exploration. Surrey instills in Cassandra a restlessness that drives her quest for knowledge and experience. At the age of thirteen, Cassandra's parents send her to live with her grandfather in Barmouth. Excessively religious, Grandfather Warren takes it upon himself to put Cassandra in her place. She is both intellectually and emotionally starved in Barmouth. Her life becomes narrowed down to home, school and church. In school, all the"
"between 1795 and 1797 by the Dashwood family. The actual site can be traced back even further to before the Norman Conquest and originally belonged to the Abbey at Bury St Edmunds until it was confiscated during the dissolution of the monasteries. Caistor Manor and land then passed to the Godslave family who owned it until the early 1600s and then in turn to the Pettus family. Through marriage the land became the property of the Dashwoods in 1793. The first recorded owner was Horatio Dashwood who lived in the hall with his wife Harriet and their children. English comedic"
"his long illness and not too many months later that Mrs. Lloyd also died. The women, being in a delicate financial state, decided to combine housekeeping and all four (Mrs. Austen, Cassandra, Jane and Martha Lloyd) moved to Southampton to be with Jane's younger brother Frank and his wife, Mary. As an officer in the Navy, Frank was often away from home and this joining of households not only helped him look after his widowed mother, but provided constant companionship for his soon pregnant wife. It seems to have been, by all accounts, an excellent arrangement. On 7 July 1809,"
"1801, Rev. Austen retired from the ministry and moved his family to Bath, Somerset. He died in 1805 and for the next four years, Jane, Cassandra, and their mother lived first in rented quarters and then in Southampton where they shared a house with Frank Austen's family. During these unsettled years, they spent much time visiting various branches of the family. In 1809, Jane, Cassandra, and their mother moved permanently into a large ""cottage"" in Chawton village that was part of Edward's nearby estate. Austen lived at Chawton until she moved to Winchester for medical treatment shortly before her death"
"house and estate in the south of England, which is the ancestral seat of the Dukes of Chevron. In some passages the setting switches to London, for example when Sebastian visits Teresa. The plot covers the years of Sebastian's and Viola's adolescence which means approximately 1905–1910. Sebastian, is the 19-year-old Duke of Chevron and owner of the country estate of Chevron. As he had not yet attained his majority, the estate is presided over by his mother, Lucy, Dowager Duchess of Chevron. Being at home from Oxford at the weekends he regularly attends the magnificent parties given by his widowed"
"Chawton Chawton is a village and civil parish in the East Hampshire district of Hampshire, England. The village lies within the South Downs National Park and is famous as the home of Jane Austen for the last eight years of her life. Chawton's recorded history begins in the Domesday survey of 1086. In the 13th century, there was a royal manor house. The owner, John St John, served as deputy to Edward I in Scotland. Henry III visited the manor on over forty occasions. The descendants of John Knight, who built the present Chawton House at the time of the"