Everything about Love And Freindship totally explained
Love and Freindship [sic] is a juvenile story by
Jane Austen, dated
1790, when Austen was 14 years old. Written in
epistolary form, like her later unpublished
novella,
Lady Susan, it's thought to be one of the tales she wrote for the amusement of her family. The installments, written as letters from the heroine Laura, to Marianne, the daughter of her friend, Isabel, "La Comtesse de Feullide," may have come about as nightly readings by the young Jane in the Austen home. Love and
Freindship (the misspelling is one of many in the story) is clearly a
parody of
romantic novels Austen read as a child. This is clear even from the
subtitle, "Deceived in Freindship and Betrayed in Love," which totally undercuts the title.
In form, it resembles a
fairy tale as much as anything else, featuring wild coincidences and turns of fortune, but Austen is determined to
lampoon the conventions of romantic stories, right down to the utter failure of romantic
fainting spells, which always turn out badly for the female characters.
In this story one can see the development of Austen's sharp
wit and disdain for romantic
sensibility, so characteristic of her later novels.
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