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Myths & Legends
(Hardcover)
William Patten, Vox Day, Matthew King
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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.
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