Juvenilia - Volume I

"e;I have a great mind to go to Italy and be a nun, but I don't think I should like it."e;Long before she created Elizabeth Bennet or Emma Woodhouse, a teenage Jane Austen was already skewering the tropes of 18th-century literature. Juvenilia Volume I is a riotous collection of "e;scraps"e; and "e;sketches"e; that displays none of the refined restraint of her later novels. Instead, readers are t...