Jane Austen, Early and Late
Jane Austen, Early and Late A reexamination of Austen's unpublished writings that uncovers their continuity with her celebrated novels--and that challenges distinctions between the writer's "early"…
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Jane Austen, Early and Late
A reexamination of Austen's unpublished writings that uncovers their continuity with her celebrated novels--and that challenges distinctions between the writer's "early" and "late" periodsJane Austen's six novels, published toward the end of her short life, represent a body of work that is as brilliant as it is compact. Austen's first biographer described them as "childish effusions." Was he right to do so? Her earlier writings have routinely been dismissed as mere juvenilia, or stepping stones to mature proficiency and greatness.
In Jane Austen, Early and Late, Freya Johnston argues that they cannot.Examining the three manuscript volumes in which Austen collected her earliest writings, Johnston finds that Austen's regard and affection for them are revealed by her continuing to revisit Can the novels be definitively separated from the unpublished works?