Teenage Writings

by Jane Austen

Book Overview

Three notebooks of Jane Austen's early writings survive. The 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198737459
• ISBN13: 9780198737452
• Release Date: June 2017
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.0" x 7.6"