Jane Austen's remarkable juvenilia date from 1787, when she was eleven, to 1793, when she was seventeen. She preserved these early writings in three manuscript notebooks, entitled, with mock solemnity, 'Volume the First', 'Volume the Second', and 'Volume the Third'. Most of these works are short fictions, but Austen also wrote the opening of what could have become a full-length novel, 'Catharine', as well as dramatic sketches, verses, and a few non-fictional pieces. Astonishingly sophisticated and inventive, these writings are now receiving the scholarly attention they deserve. This edition provides a fresh transcription of Austen's manuscripts, with comprehensive explanatory notes, an extensive critical introduction, covering the context and publication history of the juvenilia, a chronology of Austen's life and an authoritative textual apparatus. It also prints, for the first time, the copious satirical marginalia that Austen wrote on her copies of Oliver Goldsmith's History of England.
- The authoritative edition of Austen's complete juvenilia
- Displays Austen's revisions to her earliest writings
- Includes a facsimile of A History of England with Cassandra Austen's illustrations
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'The Juvenilia, here presented with full explanatory notes, can now take their important place in Jane Austen's works.' The Jane Austen Society Newsletter
'Sabor provides in their respective volumes a generous, helpful, and historically informed introduction to the work and its reception; a set of informative, judicious explanatory notes; and a meticulously prepared and visually well presented text. … Sabor's achievement in the edition of the Juvenilia is a tour de force.' Devoney Looser, University of Missouri
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Product details
- Date Published: May 2013
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781107044166
- length: 574 pages
- dimensions: 216 x 140 x 32 mm
- weight: 0.72kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Introduction
Note on the text
Volume the First: Frederic and Elfrida
Jack and Alice
Edgar and Emma
Henry and Eliza
The adventures of Mr Harley
Sir William Mountague
Memoirs of Mr Clifford
The beautiful Cassandra
Amelia Webster
The Visit
The Mystery
The Three Sisters
A fragment - written to inculcate the practise of Virtue
A beautiful description of the different effects of Sensibility on different Minds
The Generous Curate
Ode to Pity
Volume the Second: Love and Freindship
Lesley Castle
The History of England
A Collection of Letters
The female philosopher
The First Act of a Comedy
A Letter from a Young Lady
A Tour through Wales
A Tale
Volume the Third: Evelyn, Catharine, or the Bower
Corrections and Emendations
Appendix A. The History of England: facsimile
Appendix B. Marginalia in Oliver Goldsmith's The History of England
Appendix C. Marginalia in Vicesimus Knox's Elegant Extracts
Appendix D. Sophia Sentiment's letter in The Loiterer
Appendix D. Continuations of 'Evelyn' and 'Catharine' by James Edward Austen and Anna Lefroy
Abbreviations
Explanatory notes.
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Author
Jane Austen
Editor
Peter Sabor, McGill University, Montréal
Peter Sabor is Director of the Burney Centre and Canada Research Chair in Eighteenth-Century Studies at McGill University, Montreal.