Volume the Second: In Her Own Hand Contributor(s): Austen, Jane (Author), Sutherland, Kathryn (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 0789212005 ISBN-13: 9780789212009 Publisher: Abbeville Press OUR PRICE: $22.46 Product Type: Hardcover Published: October 2014 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections | European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Literary Collections | Women Authors |
Dewey: 828.709 |
LCCN: 2014016114 |
Series: Jane Austen: In Her Own Hand |
Physical Information: 1" H x 6.9" W x 8.7" (1.55 lbs) 336 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 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. |