Welcome to the History Trix, where any resemblance to a boring old history lesson is purely coincidental.

Welcome to the History Trix Book Club.

Hey!

This is what we're calling it.

This is a companion piece to our Jane Austen podcast, Episode 38.

And honestly, you can listen to them independently.

So if you haven't heard that one yet, you're still fine to go ahead or if you'd like to put us on pause and go back one.

You can do that too.

And I don't know that we're going to be referencing too much.

We're not going to do any spoilers away that we talked about in Jane's life,

but we will discuss each of her novels that were published.

And so, without further ado, here we go with book number one.

Let's start with Sense and Sensibility.

Written around 1795 at Steventon and not published until 1811,

which is a big gap.

And it was the first piece that she ever had published.

It began life as Eleanor and Mary Ann,

and it was one of those three novels that she carried around as her special treasure.

It probably started off in letter form.

It was a bunch of letters and then rewritten into a more narrative,

but she didn't rewrite it until she settled in Chauten.

She used the pseudonym, a lady.

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