Edward Ferrars is a fictional character in Jane Austen's 1811 novel Sense and Sensibility. He is the elder of Fanny Dashwood's two brothers and forms an attachment to Elinor Dashwood. As first described in Sense and Sensibility:"Edward Ferrars was not recommended to their good opinion by any peculiar graces of person or address.He was not handsome, and his manners required intimacy to make them pleasing.He was too diffident to do justice to himself; but when his natural shyness was overcome, his behaviourgave every indication of an open, affectionate heart. His understanding was good, and his education hadgiven it solid improvement. But he was neither fitted by abilities nor disposition to answer the wishesof his mother and sister, who longed to see him distinguished—as—they hardly knew wh