![]() ![]() ![]() For the first time in 40 years, they’ve been brought together for a display at the British Library. ![]() Thought to have been written when Austen was between the ages of 11 and 17, they contain stories, dramatic sketches and a spoof history. “By contrast, they are exuberantly expressionistic tales of sexual misdemeanour, of female drunkenness and violence.”Ī different side to the British novelist can be seen in the three notebooks of her early writings that still survive. “Jane Austen’s earliest writings appear to have little in common with the restrained and realistic society portrayed in her adult novels,” writes Kathryn Sutherland, a professor of English at the University of Oxford. ![]()
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