The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Jane Austen 8 Volume Paperback Set: Juvenilia
Cambridge University Press, 5/30/2013
EAN 9781107044166, ISBN10: 1107044162
Paperback, 574 pages, 21.6 x 13.8 x 3.7 cm
Language: English
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.
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.