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John Willoughby is a fictional character in Jane Austen's 1811 novel Sense and Sensibility. He is described as being a handsome young man with a small estate, but has expectations of inheriting his aunt's large estate. He is in love with Marianne Dashwood, who is also a character in the novel. John Willoughby by Chris Hammond, 1899
John Dashwood – the son of Henry Dashwood by Henry's first wife. He initially intends to do well by his half-sisters, but he has a keen sense of avarice , and is easily swayed by his wife to ignore his deathbed promise to his father, and leaves the Dashwood women in genteel poverty .
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Born about 1421, he was the son of John Willoughby (about 1400–1437), a landowner in Lincolnshire, and his wife Joan Welby, [1] [2] daughter of John Welby. [citation needed] His paternal grandfather was Sir Thomas Willoughby (died 1417), who married his step-sister Elizabeth Neville, the daughter of John Neville, 3rd Baron Neville.
The bulk of his estate, Norland Park, is left to his son, John, from a previous marriage. John and his greedy, snobbish wife Fanny immediately install themselves in the large house; Fanny invites her brother, Edward Ferrars, to stay with them. She frets about the budding friendship between Edward and Elinor, believing he can do better, and does ...
When Henry Dashwood dies, he leaves his entire fortune and his home, Norland Park, to his son John. John promises that he will provide for his stepmother Mary Dashwood, and half-sisters Elinor, Marianne, and Margaret. However, John's wife Fanny convinces him to make much smaller provision than he had originally intended.
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At which the cooler Elinor replies quietly, "It is not everyone who has your passion for dead leaves." And later when she hears Sir John Middleton's account of John Willoughby, her eyes sparkle, and she says, "That is what I like; that is what a young man ought to be. Whatever be his pursuits, his eagerness in them should know no moderation ...