Volume the First
Author | : Jane Austen |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 1925-01-01 |
ISBN-10 | : 0485105012 |
ISBN-13 | : 9780485105018 |
Rating | : 4/5 (12 Downloads) |
Download or read book Volume the First written by Jane Austen and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 1925-01-01 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.