Forever immortalized as the author of Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen actually produced her first “books” as a teenager. Taking their names from the inscriptions on their covers—Volume the First, Volume the Second, and Volume the Third—these brilliant little collections include the stories, playlets, verses, and moral fragments she wrote likely from the ages of twelve to eighteen.
As a young author, Jane Austen delighted in language, employing it with great humor and surprising skill. She was adept at parodying the popular stories of her day and entertained her readers with outrageous plotlines and characters. Kathryn Sutherland places Austen’s earliest works in context and explains how she mimicked even the style and manner in which this contemporary popular fiction was presented and arranged on the page.
Volume the Second, housed at the British Library, contains Austen’s famous “The History of England,” illustrated with watercolor portraits by her sister Cassandra, as well as “Love and Friendship,” “Lesley Castle,” and several letters and fragments she calls "scraps".
This notebook was compiled between June 1790 and June 1793, from ages fourteen to seventeen.
None of her six famous novels survives in complete manuscript form. This is a unique opportunity to own likenesses of Jane Austen’s notebooks as originally written—in her own hand.
Learn more about the other books in the In Her Own Hand series: Volume the First and Volume the Third. All three volumes are also available in the In Her Own Hand series boxed set.
This book title, Volume the Second by Jane Austen (In Her Own Hand), ISBN: 9780789212009, by Jane Austen, Kathryn Sutherland, published by Abbeville Publishing Group (October 21, 2014) is available in hardcover. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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