Persuasions On-Line 42.1 (2021).ĭerbyshire Great Houses and Pemberley, by John Wiltshire. Sense and Sensibility: 3 or 4 Country Families in an Urban Village, by Laurie Kaplan.
Sunday in the Park with Elinor Dashwood: “So Public a Place”, by Laurie Kaplan.“Within Four Miles Northward of Exeter”: Landscapes of the Mind and Map in Sense and Sensibility, by Hazel Jones. For example, Sense and Sensibility begins, “The family of Dashwood had been long settled in Sussex.” Austen uses the removal of the Dashwood women from Norland Park in Sussex to Barton Cottage in distant Devonshire to underscore both their exile from a cherished home and their displacement from an established social position to a modest life among strangers. She also uses geography to make a point about her characters. Austen always names the county in which a novel’s action is set and often mentions cities and landmarks, though her villages and estates are invented. In each novel her “3 or 4 Families in a Country Village” are situated in a specific part of England. A defining characteristic of Jane Austen’s fiction is its realism, which is manifest in details of speech, manner, lifestyle, and even geography.
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