Who Are The Dashwood Family?
Dashwood family, featured characters in Jane Austen’s novel Sense and Sensibility (1811). The widowed Mrs. Dashwood and her three daughters—Elinor, Marianne, and Margaret—are impoverished by the death of Mr. Dashwood and by the selfishness and neglect of his heir, who is his son by his first wife. How is John Dashwood related to Elinor? She …