Teenage Writings

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Jane Austen Kathryn Sutherland (Professor of Bibliography and Textual Criticism, St Anne's College, Oxford)

Teenage Writings

Jane Austen, Kathryn Sutherland (Professor of Bibliography and Textual Criticism, St Anne's College, Oxford), Freya Johnston (University Lecturer and Tutorial Fellow in English, St Anne's College, Oxford)

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English

Worlds Classics
29 May 2017

Series: Oxford World's Classics

'Jane Austen practising' Virginia Woolf

Three notebooks of Jane Austen's teenage writings survive. The earliest pieces probably date from 1786 or 1787, around the time that Jane, aged 11 or 12, and her older sister and collaborator Cassandra left school. By this point Austen was already an indiscriminate and precocious reader, devouring pulp fiction and classic literature alike; what she read, she soon began to imitate and parody.

Unlike many teenage writings then and now, these are not secret or agonized confessions entrusted to a private journal and for the writer's eyes alone. Rather, they are stories to be shared and admired by a named audience of family and friends. Devices and themes which appear subtly in Austen's later fiction run riot openly and exuberantly across the teenage page. Drunkenness, brawling, sexual misdemeanour, theft, and even murder prevail.

By: Jane Austen
Edited by: Kathryn Sutherland (Professor of Bibliography and Textual Criticism St Anne's College Oxford), Freya Johnston (University Lecturer and Tutorial Fellow in English, St Anne's College, Oxford)
Imprint: Worlds Classics
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 197mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 276g
ISBN: 9780198737452
ISBN 10: 0198737459
Series: Oxford World's Classics
Pages: 416
Publication Date: 29 May 2017
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction Chronology of Composition of Items in the Teenage Notebooks Note on the Text Note on Spelling Select Bibliography A Chronology of Jane Austen Maps VOLUME THE FIRST Frederic & Elfrida Jack & Alice Edgar & Emma Henry & Eliza Mr Harley Sir William Mountague Mr Clifford The beautifull Cassandra Amelia Webster The Visit The Mystery The three Sisters Detached peices Ode to Pity VOLUME THE SECOND Love and Friendship Lesley-Castle The History of England Collection of Letters Scraps VOLUME THE THIRD Evelyn Kitty, or the Bower FAMILY CONTINUATIONS TO VOLUME THE THIRD Continuation of 'Evelyn', by James Edward Austen Continuation of 'Evelyn', by Anna Lefroy Continuation of 'Kitty, or the Bower', by James Edward Austen APPENDIX Letter of Sophia Sentiment from The Loiterer, 28 March 1789 Abbreviations Textual Notes Explanatory Notes

Kathryn Sutherland is Professor of Bibliography & Textual Criticism in the University of Oxford. She is the editor of James Edward Austen-Leigh's Memoir of Jane Austen and Other Family Recollections for Oxford World's Classics. She has created a digital edition of Jane Austen's Fiction Manuscripts (2010), the print edition of which is due to be published by OUP in 2017. She is the author of Jane Austen's Textual Lives: from Aeschylus to Bollywood (OUP, 2005). Freya Johnston is University Lecturer and Tutorial Fellow in English at St Anne's College, Oxford. She is the author of Samuel Johnson and the Art of Sinking, 1709-1791 (2005) and general editor of The Cambridge Edition of the Novels of Thomas Love Peacock (2016 - ).

Reviews for Teenage Writings

Professor Kathryn Sutherland and University Lecturer Freya Johnston skilfully edit this fascinating collection of Austen's early teenage writings ... This new edition provides fresh readings of individual texts, and the explanatory notes accompanying them offer to expand our sense of what the young Austen might have been reading and responding to at the time. * Reader's Digest * ...a brilliantly readable [edition]...What is often most engaging and amusing about this bravura writing is Austen's un-restrained comic mayhem. * Francis O'Gorman, Reviews31.co.uk *