Laura, while rejecting that she is too old for such “unmerited” misfortunes, agrees to tell her story to Isabella’s daughter Marianne as a “useful lesson”. It commences with a letter in which Isabella asks her friend Laura to tell her daughter “the Misfortunes and Adventures” of her Life. “You are this day 55”, she says, and surely now safe “from the determined Perseverance of disagreeable Lovers and the cruel Persecutions of obstinate Fathers”. It’s the illuminating part that I plan to focus on here.īut first, a little about the plot. So it is that I have just – for my local Jane Austen group – reread Love and freindship (sic), the short epistolary novel she wrote in her 15th year. You read her letters, her unfinished works and her juvenilia. If you are a Jane Austen fan, you don’t just read her six novels.
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