Jane Austen, Love and Freindship

Ana-Karina Schneider (Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.2.1.06: English Writing and Culture of the Romantic Period, 1789-1837.
Vol. editors: Daniel Cook (University of Dundee), Daniel Robinson (Widener University), Emily Rohrbach (University of Durham)

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First circulation or publication 1789

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England (Country of Origin)

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Juvenilia
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One of Jane Austen's

Juvenilia

productions,

Love and Freindship

was written when its author was only fourteen years old (1789-90); it was one of many early short works and the first of an epistolary triptych that also includes

A Collection of Letters

(1791) and

Lady Susan

(1793-94). Three notebooks, entitled

Volume the First, Volume the Second

and

Volume the Third

, were written by Austen between 1787 and 1793, probably to entertain her family and as part of her education by her father. Coincidentally they also discovered her extraordinary talent and prepared her for her later writing.

Love and Freindship is fundamentally a highly amusing burlesque of current literary fashions, written in the form of a series of letters from Laura to Marianne. Its epigraph reads “Deceived in

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Citation: Schneider, Ana-Karina. "Love and Freindship". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 01 March 2007 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=3832, accessed 26 November 2024.]

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