Love and freindship jane austen5/28/2023 ![]() They are in turns hilarious and overly sentimental, a parody of the cult of “ sensibility” that Jane Austen would revisit in a more serious light with her novel Sense and Sensibility. The novella contains 15 letters which begin with the narrator Laura and her friend Isabel, and continue with Laura and Isabel’s’ daughter Marianne. The misspelling of the third word in the title “freindship” is the customary spelling as it appeared on the original manuscript in Jane Austen’s hand. It was first published in 1922, and can often be found in versions of her work entitled “ Minor Works“. Love and Freindship, (note the original misspelling on friendship) a novella written as an epistolary inscribed “Deceived in Friendship & Betrayed in Love” was dedicated to Madame la Comtesse de Feuillide (Jane Austen’s cousin Eliza Hancock who married a French Count, Jean-Francois Capot de Feuillide) and completed on 13 June 1790 when she was 14 years old. I have been reading Jane Austen’s Juvenilia and find it delightful. ![]()
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