Teenage Writings (Oxford World's Classics Ser.)
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- Synopsis
- 'Jane Austen practising' Virginia WoolfThree notebooks of Jane Austen's early writings survive. The pieces probably date from 1786 or 1787, around the time that Jane, aged 11 or 12, and her older sister and collaborator Cassandra left school. By this point Austen was already an indiscriminate and precocious reader, devouring pulp fictionand classic literature alike; what she read, she soon began to imitate and parody.Unlike many teenage writings then and now, these are not secret or agonized confessions entrusted to a private journal and for the writer's eyes alone. Rather, they are stories to be shared and admired by a named audience of family and friends. Devices and themes which appear subtly in Austen'slater fiction run riot openly and exuberantly across the teenage page. Drunkenness, brawling, sexual misdemeanour, theft, and even murder prevail. It is as if Lydia Bennett is the narrator.
- Copyright:
- 2017
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Excellent
- Book Size:
- 396 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9780198737452
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- Date of Addition:
- 09/16/22
- Copyrighted By:
- Kathryn Sutherland, Freya Johnston
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Literature and Fiction, Language Arts
- Submitted By:
- Worth Trust
- Proofread By:
- Worth Trust
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.
- Edited by:
- Kathryn Sutherland, Freya Johnston
- Introduction by:
- Kathryn Sutherland, Freya Johnston