Love and Freindship

Love and Freindship

"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 Written in epistolary form, like her later unpublished novella, "Lady Susan", it is thought to be one of the tales she wrote for the amusement of her family.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 completely 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.

External links

* [http://www.pemberley.com/janeinfo/lovfrend.html Love and Freindship, A novel in a series of Letters: "Deceived in Freindship and Betrayed in Love."]
* [http://www.asiaing.com/love-and-friendship-by-jane-austen.html "Love and Friendship" by Jane Austen] - Free eBook in PDF version.
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