![]() ![]() "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. This is clear even from the subtitle, "Deceived in Freindship and Betrayed in Love", which completely undercuts the title. Love and Freindship (the misspelling is one of many in the story) is clearly a parody of romantic novels Austen read as a child. The instalments, written as letters from the heroine Laura, to Marianne, the daughter of her friend Isabel, may have come about as nightly readings by the young Jane in the Austen home. Written in epistolary form, like her later unpublished novella, Lady Susan, Love and Freindship is thought to be one of the tales she wrote for the amusement of her family it was dedicated to her cousin Eliza de Feuillide, "La Comtesse de Feuillide". Austen wrote these stories at the age of 14 and 15 and read them aloud to her family. They include among others Love and Freindship, written when Jane was fourteen, and The History of England, when she was fifteen. Jane Austen, Love and FreindshipLove and Freindship and Other Early Works is a collection of short epistolary stories initially meant to amuse Jane Austen’s family. The notebooks still exist – one in the Bodleian Library the other two in the British Museum. ![]() From the age of eleven until she was eighteen, Jane Austen wrote her tales in three notebooks. Published when she was fourteen years old, Love and Freindship is a juvenile story in the epistolary format of a series of letters. ![]() Love and Freindship And Other Early Works A Collection of Juvenile Writings By Jane Austen Love and Freindship is a juvenile story by Jane Austen, dated 1790. ABOUT THE BOOK AND AUTHOR Love and Freindship and other Early Works was written by English novelist Jane Austen (17751817) and was first published in 1790. ![]()
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