Which Austen novel features the Dashwood sisters?

The Austen novel featuring the Dashwood sisters is Sense and Sensibility.

The story follows Elinor, Marianne, and Margaret Dashwood and their widowed mother after the death of Henry Dashwood. Because the family estate, Norland Park, passes to Henry’s son from an earlier marriage, the women are left with reduced financial security and eventually move to Barton Cottage in Devon.

Elinor and Marianne are the two central sisters. Elinor is practical, reserved, and guided by judgment, while Marianne is passionate, outspoken, and strongly guided by feeling. Their contrasting temperaments give the novel its title, although Austen shows that neither sister is simply sensible or emotional all the time. Both must learn from the other.

The novel was Austen’s first published work, appearing anonymously in 1811 under the description “By a Lady.” It is sometimes confused with Pride and Prejudice because both novels examine courtship, money, family pressure, and social reputation. The Dashwoods, however, belong exclusively to Sense and Sensibility; the Bennets belong to Pride and Prejudice.