LOVE AND FRIENDSHIP
and other early works
Jane Austen
'Love and Friendship is a miracle of maturity and one of the wittiest send-ups of nonsense in the English language'
Time
This delightful collection of the early works of Jane Austen makes hilarious and essential reading. Combining the exuberance of youth with the sharp wit and devastating social criticism of her later novels, Love and Friendship is not to be missed.
Jane Austen
was born in Hampshire in 1775. The daughter of a country rector, without the advantages of education or travel, she wrote novelswhich established her as one of the great writers. These include Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Emma and Northanger Abbey. Jane Austen did nt marry and died in 1817.
In 1869, from the Vicarage at Bray, her nephew wrote in his memoir of Jane Austen. 'There was in her nothing eccentric or angular; no ruggedness of temper; no singularity of manner; none of the morbid sensibility of exaggeration of feeling, which not unfrequently accmpanies great talents... Hers was a mind well balanced on the basis of good sense, sweetened by an affectionate heart, and regulated by fixed principles; so that she was to be distinguished from many other amiable and sensible women only by that particular genius which shines out in her works.