Jane Austen, barely a teenager, takes a scalpel to the sentimental novel.
At a glance
A breathless epistolary romp of fainting heroines and improbable coincidence, written to…
Before the poise of Pride and Prejudice, there was a fifteen-year-old scribbling in a…
Love and Freindship keeps its author's deliberate misspelling as a badge of honour, and…
What it's about Told in a chain of letters, this early piece follows the fervent Laura…
Told in a chain of letters, this early piece follows the fervent Laura as she recounts her adventures to the daughter of a friend, supposedly as moral instruction.