Knot your bonnets and button up your waistcoats, readers- we're going Regency Georgian a-courting! This is Jane Austen's first published novel in 1811, which she signed off as "By a Lady" and led to major acclaim and success. Her next novel would be signed as "By the Author of Sense and Sensibility", so let's explore her first work.

Plot summary:

Marianne Dashwood wears her heart on her sleeve, and when she falls in love with the dashing but unsuitable John Willoughby she ignores her sister Elinor's warning that her impulsive behavior leaves her open to gossip and innuendo. Meanwhile Elinor, always sensitive to social convention, is struggling to conceal her own romantic disappointment, even from those closest to her. Through their parallel experience of love—and its threatened loss—the sisters learn that sense must mix with sensibility if they are to find personal happiness in a society where status and money govern the rules of love (source)

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Links: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/21839 (has illustrations!)

**It has come to my attention that some people's books are organized differently, so I'm adding the complementary chapters in (_) **

Schedule for discussions~

I will post discussions on Sundays, so mark your calendars!

Chapters 1-14- meet up on 8/1 (next Sunday)

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Chapters 15-24 meet up 8/8

(Chapters 15-Volume 2, Chapter 2)

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Chapters 25-33 meet up 8/15

(Volume 2, Chapter 3-Chapter 11)

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Chapters 34-42 meet up 8/22

(Volume 2 Chapter 12-Volume 3, Chapter 6)

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Chapters 43-50/ Final Discussion meet up 8/29

(Volume 3, Chapter 7 to end)

I'm excited for my first read runner assignment and so, by the Tare an' hounds, we're sure to kick up a lark*! See you next Sunday!

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*Exclamation; Get up to (literary) mischief-Marginalia post TBA soon