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Title: Teenage Writings
Author: AUSTEN JANE
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 16/03/2017
Imprint: OXFORD UNI PRESS
Price: $19.95
Publishing status: Active
‘Jane Austen practising’ Virginia Woolf Three notebooks of Jane Austen’s teenage writings survive. The earliest 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 fiction and 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’s later fiction run riot openly and exuberantly across the teenage page. Drunkenness, brawling, sexual misdemeanour, theft, and even murder prevail.
Series: Oxford World’s Classics
ISBN: 9780198737452
Dimension: 196mm X 129mm
Pages: 416