{"product_id":"teenage-writings-paperback","title":"Teenage Writings - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJane Austen\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eKathryn Sutherland\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eFreya Johnston\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThree 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eUnlike many teenage writings then and now, these are not secret or agonized confessions entrusted to a private journal and for the writer's eyes alone. Rather, they are stories to be shared and admired by a named audience of family and friends. Devices and themes which appear subtly in Austen's later fiction run riot openly and exuberantly across the teenage page. Drunkenness, brawling, sexual misbehavior, theft, and even murder prevail. It is as if Lydia Bennett is the narrator.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKathryn Sutherland\u003c\/strong\u003e is the editor of Austen-Leigh's \u003cem\u003eMemoir of Jane Austen: and Other Family Recollections\u003c\/em\u003e for Oxford World's Classics. She has created a digital edition of Jane Austen's Fiction Manuscripts (2012), the print edition of which is due to be published by OUP in 2017. She is the author of \u003cem\u003eJane Austen's Textual Lives: from Aeschylus to Bollywood\u003c\/em\u003e (OUP, 2005). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFreya Johnston\u003c\/strong\u003e is University Lecturer and Tutorial Fellow in English at St Anne's College, Oxford. She is the author of \u003cem\u003eSamuel Johnson and the Art of Sinking, 1709-1791\u003c\/em\u003e (2005) and general editor of The Cambridge Edition of the Novels of Thomas Love Peacock (2016).\u003cbr\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 416\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 7.6 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 26, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52403504185649,"sku":"9780198737452","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0958\/3486\/5969\/files\/NVd6YWF3b1BpWDIzWU45RDhXaHBwQT09.webp?v=1768918600","url":"https:\/\/www.welibooks.com\/products\/teenage-writings-paperback","provider":"Welibooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}