Simplify the following text for a Grade 7 native English-speaking person.
Original: Lady Bessborough , sister to the notorious Georgiana , Duchess of Devonshire , commented on Sense and Sensibility in a letter to a friend : `` it is a clever novel .
Simplified: Henrietta Ponsonby , Countess of Bessborough wrote about Sense and Sensibility in a letter to a friend . She said : `` it is a clever novel .