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Book SynopsisForever immortalised as the author of Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen actually produced her first ''books'' as a teenager. Taking their names from the inscriptions on their covers - Volume the First, Volume the Second, and Volume the Third - these brilliant little collections include the stories, playlets, verses, and moral fragments she wrote likely from the ages of 12 to 18.
As a young author, Jane Austen delighted in language, employing it with great humour and surprising skill. She was adept at parodying the popular stories of her day and entertained her readers with outrageous plotlines and characters. Kathryn Sutherland places Austen''s earliest works in context and explains how she mimicked even the style and manner in which this contemporary popular fiction was presented and arranged on the page.
Volume the Second, housed at the British Library, contains Austen''s famous The History of England, illustrated with waterc
Trade Review
Praise for the In Her Own Hand series:
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a unique contribution to the world of Austen publications.
Kathryn Sutherland’s engaging and thought-provoking introductions help the reader to share in the fun of many of the Austen family’s jokes while also gaining a greater understanding of the world they lived in. Readers will be entertained and inspired by this experience of Jane Austen’s 'playful apprenticeship in the art of bookmaking.'” austenprose(dot)com
"This beautiful edition places Jane Austen’s three precious notebooks into the hands of the common reader." Jane Austen Society of North America (JASNA)
Table of Contents
Table of Contents from Volume the Second
Teenage Reading and Rebellion by Kathryn Sutherland
Volume the Second:
Love and Friendship
Lesley Castle
The History of England
Collection of Letters
Scraps
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