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Volume the First: A Facsimile - Hardcover

Jane Austen; Kathryn Sutherland

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Synopsis

Jane Austen collected her childhood writings into three manuscript notebooks, both as a record of her earliest work and for the convenience of reading aloud to her family and friends. Volume the First (as she entitled it) contains fourteen pieces - literary skits and family jokes - dating from about 1787, when she was eleven, to 1793. Amusing in themselves, they give us a direct picture of the lively literary and family milieu in which the novelist's juvenilia was formed. This new edtion carries a Foreword by Lord David Cecil, a former president of the Jane Austen Society and Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford. There is also a Publisher's Preface by Brian Southam, author of Jane Austen's Literary Manuscripts and other works on Jane Austen.

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Review

'A rare insight into the real mind of a novelist whose reputation has been so carefully shaped by her family.' -- Anna Creer * The Sydney Morning Herald * `This is exquisite ... Who could resist?' * Jane Austen's Regency World *

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