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Book SynopsisTrade Review"An A Kennedy Smith Book of the Year"
"Fans of Jane Austen will enjoy Freya Johnston’s
Jane Austen, Early and Late, which examines
some of the teenage writings from the author of
Pride and Prejudice, many of which were, surprisingly, full of ‘gallows humour.’"
---Martin Chilton, Independent"If you know your Austen, this book is a dream."
---Norma Clarke, Literary Review"Austenites will appreciate the historical context Johnston provides. . . . Students and devotees of Austen will appreciate the light shed on a lesser-known part of her career." * Publishers Weekly *
"A wonderfully expansive reimagining of the corpus. . . . The great achievement of Johnston’s book is putting us face-to-face with the writing itself: with the sheer compositional energy of Austen’s work."
---Alex Woloch, Nineteenth-Century Contexts"In a stream of perceptive and engaging close readings of Austen’s writing, the book insists on stylistic, thematic and conceptual connections not only between her juvenilia and published novels, but among all the author’s written output. . . . Johnston also weaves into her analysis a stunning array of works that likely constituted Austen’s own reading."
---Michelle Levy, Review of English Studies
