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Love and Freindship and other Early Works
By Jane Austen
Length3h 32m
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Love and Freindship is a juvenile story by Jane Austen, dated 1790. From the age of eleven until she was eighteen, Jane Austen wrote her tales in three notebooks. The notebooks still exist – one in the Bodleian Library; the other two in the British Museum. They include among others Love and Freindship, written when Jane was fourteen, and The History of England, when she was fifteen. Written in epistolary form, like her later unpublished novella, Lady Susan, Love and Freindship is thought to be one of the tales she wrote for the amusement of her family; it was dedicated to her cousin Eliza de Feuillide, "La Comtesse de Feuillide". The instalments, written as letters from the heroine Laura, to Marianne, the daughter of her friend Isabel, may have come about as nightly readings by the young Jane in the Austen home. Love and Freindship (the misspelling is one of many in the story) is clearly a parody of romantic novels Austen read as a child. This is clear even from the subtitle, "Deceived in Freindship and Betrayed in Love", which completely undercuts the title. In form, it resembles a fairy tale as much as anything else, featuring wild coincidences and turns of fortune, but Austen is determined to lampoon the conventions of romantic stories, right down to the utter failure of romantic fainting spells, which always turn out badly for the female characters. In this story one can see the development of Austen's sharp wit and disdain for romantic sensibility, so characteristic of her later novels.
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GenreLiterary Classics, Biography and Memoir
Length3 hrs 32 mins
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FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMar 27, 2020
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
2Letter The First. From Isabel To Laura
3Letter 2nd. Laura To Isabel
4Letter 3rd. Laura To Marianne
5Letter 4th. Laura To Marianne
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6Letter 5th. Laura To Marianne
7Letter 6th. Laura To Marianne
8Letter 7th. Laura To Marianne
9Letter 8th. Laura To Marianne, In Continuation
10Letter The 9th. From The Same To The Same
11Letter 10th. Laura In Continuation
12Letter 11th. Laura In Continuation
13Letter The 12th. Laura In Continuation
14Letter The 13th. Laura In Continuation
15Letter The 14th. Laura In Continuation
16Letter The 15th. Laura In Continuation
17Lesley Castle. Letter The First. Is From Miss Margaret Lesley To Miss Charlotte
18Letter The Second. From Miss C. Lutterell To Miss M. Lesley In Answer
19Letter The Third. From Miss Margaret Lesley To Miss C. Lutterell Lesley
20Letter The Fourth. From Miss C. Lutterell To Miss M. Lesley Bristol
21Letter The Fifth. Miss Margaret Lesley To Miss Charlotte Lutterell
22Letter The Sixth. Lady Lesley To Miss Charlotte Lutterell Lesley-Castle
23Letter The Seventh. From Miss C. Lutterell To Miss M. Lesley Bristol
24Letter The Eighth. Miss Lutterell To Mrs Marlowe Bristol
25Letter The Ninth. Mrs Marlowe To Miss Lutterell Grosvenor Street
26Letter The Tenth. From Miss Margaret Lesley To Miss Charlotte Lutterell
27The History Of England
28Letter The First. From A Mother To Her Freind
29Letter The Second. From A Young Lady Crossed In Love To Her Freind
30Letter The Third. From A Young Lady In Distressed Circumstances To Her Freind
31Letter The Fourth. From A Young Lady Rather Impertinent To Her Freind
32Letter The Fifth. From A Young Lady Very Much In Love To Her Freind
33The Female Philosopher
34The First Act Of A Comedy
35A Letter From A Young Lady, Whose Feelings Being Too Strong For Her Judgement Led Her Into The Commission Of Errors Which Her Heart Disapproved.
36A Tour Through Wales—In A Letter From A Young Lady
37A Tale
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