First chapter's summary

  Mr. and Mrs. Henry Dashwood were a rich couple wich had a child called John Dashwood. When Mrs. Dashwood died Mr. Dashwood married again and had 3 daughters: Elinor, Marianne and Margaret.

  After Mrs. Dashwood death, John became rich and became even richer when he married Fanny Ferrars who he had a son with. When Mr. Dashwood was an old man he decided to give all his inheritance to his grandchild cause he thought he could work for a long time and make more money to help his wife and daughters.

  However, after a while he got sick and haven't made the money he was supposed to and when he was almost dying he talked with John and made him promisse he would help his mother and sisters. Although Fanny convinced John that he didn't have to help them with money and he gave nothing to them because for him Fanny was always right.

  This put Mrs. Dashwood and the sisters in a difficult condition, they didn't have their own home (because the house was John's son property) and then, Fanny and John have gone living there.

  After a few months they received a visitor that made the Dashwoods happier, Edward Ferrars, Fanny's old brother, but Fanny and her mother wasn't pleased to see him because they thought he should be someone important, but he was shy and wanted to have a calm and simple life.

  As the time passed, Edward liked Elinor more and more and they fell in love, but one day Fanny talked to Mrs. Dashwood that Edward would never marry with Elinor and this made she really angry so then she told her daughters they couldn't stay there anymore and they've moved to Devon after receiving a letter from a distant relative sir John Middletown, asking if they would accept his offer of a house there.