A collection of the teenage writings of Jane Austen, from when she was 11 or 12, in 1786 and 1787. Provides new readings of the texts, and explanatory notes The young Jane Austen was a precocious reader, devouring pulp fiction and classic literature, both of which she soon began to imitate and parody. Three volumes of her vivacious teenage writing survive. Devices and themes which appear subtly in her later fiction run riot here: drunkenness, brawling, sexual misdemeanour, theft, and even murder.
