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Love and Friendship (aka 'Love and Freindship')
- Narrated by: Joanna Daniell
- Length: 3 hrs and 52 mins
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Summary
Jane Austen wrote Love and Friendship (originally spelled Love and Freindship [sic]) when she was just 14 years old. The three notebooks that contain her early works, including this story, are currently on display at the Bodleian Library and the British Museum. Taking the form as letters written by the heroine to the daughter of her friend, this story resembles a fairy tale that lampoons the conventions of romantic stories at the time.
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Editor reviews
Like the Brontë sisters, Jane Austen wrote extensive juvenilia that was published and embraced by the general public after the author attained literary fame. Austen wrote Love and Freindship when she was only 14 years old, hence the typo in the title. The epistolary novel betrays the wit and precociousness of the young Austen, who sought to amuse her family by parodying the conventions of the romantic novels that helped comprise her childhood library. Joanna Daniell brings a high-class, archly enunciated diction to her performance that complements the entertaining, over-the-top material that surely had the entire Austen clan rolling on the floor in laughter.
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- ZlaD
- 02-08-21
Spot the future characters
The most enjoyable part of this was spotting the obvious characteristics and voices of several of Miss Austen's most memorable cast of characters. It's interesting to see how she started developing her style so early in her life and note how she learnt to temper some of her sarcasm to just the right level not to be too tiresome.
The reading was mostly quite wooden and lifeless. It's probably not so easy to read epistolary fiction with much flair, but I think it can be done rather better than this - it might have been a lack of adequate direction.
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- Derek
- 24-12-22
Absolutely Enchanting 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
This collection of essays and other writings is a wonderful glimpse into Jane Austen’s early life learning her craft with hints of the magical works of literature that were to come it’s never boring in fact there humorous and entertaining and well worth listening too also beautifully narrated by Joanna Daniell 📚📕📖❤️❤️
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- Nicki W
- 28-01-22
Austen was funny when younger
Funny but immature, I did love her explanation of the monarchs of England even if she was somewhat biased
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- Chelsea Michaela Blackwell
- 16-04-24
Worth the read
You can start to see Jane Austen’s style of writing developing, it’s a nice easy read
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- mouse
- 14-01-22
Best left in the writing desk
Immature; best left to Austen scholars and die hard fans. Difficult to follow as many sentences are disjointed. Well read.
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