Description:
Surprisingly modern and darkly humorous, these early and late works show Jane Austen exploring unexpected settings, characters, and narratives.
Brief description: Linda Bree is Editorial Director, Arts and Literature at the Cambridge University Press and the editor of the Broadview Edition of Jane Austen's Persuasion.
Review Quotes:
"As the informative and scholarly Introduction suggests, these manuscript works, with their combination of boisterous satire and cool detachment, throw a startling light on Jane Austen's writing practices and the achievements of her great novels. Edited by three distinguished Austen scholars, with useful notes at the bottom of the page, this is a volume all teachers and lovers of her work will want to possess." -- John Wiltshire, La Trobe University, Melbourne
"Here, in a form fully annotated and accessible to students, we have 'the Other Jane Austen'--a selection of the juvenilia, the wicked 'Lady Susan, ' and the tantalising fragments 'The Watsons' and 'Sanditon.' No longer buried as 'Minor Works, ' these sparkling productions, unpublished in her lifetime, provide indispensable insight into a brilliant author at work and at play." -- Juliet McMaster, University of Alberta