Teenage Wit and Writings of Jane Austen (Annotated)

"Larkin herself is a comic writer and performer and she approaches Austen as a satirist." (The New Yorker) Multi award-winning writer/narrator Alison Larkin brings the teenage writings of Jane Austen together in this delightful collection. Listeners will enjoy identifying where Jane Austen’s later comic creations came from as they listen to young Jane Austen gleefully lampooning the popular literature and culture of her time. Introduction by Virginia Woolfe with commentary by Alison Larkin. "Lesley Castle" "Love and Freindship" (yes, that’s the correct spelling) "A Collection of Letters Scraps", including more letters "Act One of a Play and A Tale" "The History of England" "I've a Pain in my Head" (a poem, exclusively for this Audible edition) “This girl of 15 sitting in her private corner of the common parlor was writing not to draw a laugh from brothers and sisters and not for home consumption. She was writing for everybody, for nobody, for her age and for our own. In other words, ev