Love and Freindship

Complete and unabridged, with 55 full-page plates by Thomas Lawrence, John Constable and George Morland. Austen at fourteen, writing for her family and sparing no one: a burlesque of the sentimental novel in which heroines faint alternately on a sofa, virtue is proved by fainting, and reason is despised as vulgar. She spelt the title wrong in the manuscript and it has stayed wrong ever since. Read...