A particular highlight is her “History of England” by a “partial, prejudiced, and ignorant historian,” which discusses the quirks and caprices of the country’s historic Kings and Queens. Sharp and satirical, this piece provides an interesting insight into the young writer’s views on love.Īside from the extract which gives this volume its title, however, this publication also contains other early Austen pieces, gathered from the manuscripts later entrusted to Austen’s sister, Cassandra. Featuring an early short story, “Love and Freindship ”, in which Austen contemplates the folly of lovestruck young women falling into fainting fits, this pithy parody of a romance anticipates similar characters in her later novels, such as Marianne Dashwood in Sense & Sensibility (1811), Lydia Bennet in Pride & Prejudice (1813), and Catherine Morland in Northanger Abbey (1818). This small volume, printed by Chatto & Windus in 1922, forms the first published compilation of Jane Austen’s juvenilia, written between the ages of fourteen and sixteen.
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