Jane Austen

Love and Freindship (eBook, PDF)

And Other Early Works

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Jane Austen left everything she possessed to her sister Cassandra, including these and other manuscripts; and the second volume of them, containing these, was left by Cassandra to her brother, Admiral Sir Francis Austen. He gave it.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Forgotten Books
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Oktober 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780243847358
• Artikelnr.: 58640274

Autorenporträt

JANE AUSTEN (1775–1817) was the seventh child of the rector of the parish. In her youth she wrote many burlesques, parodies and other stories, including a short epistolary novel, Lady Susan. The novels published in Austen’s lifetime include Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814), and Emma (1816). Persuasion was written in a race against failing health, and was published, together with Northanger Abbey posthumously in 1818.  Austen died in Winchester on 18 July 1817. CHRISTINE ALEXANDER is the Scientia Professor of English at the University of New South Wales, general editor of the Juvenilia Press and co-editor of The Child Writer from Austen to Woolf (2005).

Jane Austen, gemalt von ihrer Schwester Cassandra, Ausschnitt

Rezensionen

Spirited, easy, full of fun, verging with freedom upon sheer nonsense . . . At fifteen she had few illusions about other people and none about herself Virginia Woolf