Sense and Sensibility

Austen's most celebrated novel — Elizabeth Bennet is a more extroverted Elinor, and the marriage market stakes are the same, with more comedy and less quiet suffering

The late Austen novel that asks what Elinor's story would look like if restraint had actually cost her the man — Anne Elliot is Elinor with regret

Austen's study of a protagonist whose intelligence and confidence are also her blindspots — the comic inverse of Marianne's passionate certainty

The American version of Austen's project — social constraint destroying private feeling, written a century later with the added weight of knowing how it ends

The full-scale Victorian expansion of everything Austen compresses — Dorothea Brooke is what Marianne might have become in a world that took her seriously

A Victorian novel explicitly in Austen's mode, updating the sense/sensibility argument into an industrial era and giving the heroine economic agency Austen's women never had