Juvenilia Volume II. More Runaway Heroines and a Teenage Satirist's Sharpest Send-Ups

The second volume of Jane Austen's juvenilia is where her satire gets bolder. Featuring the novella Love and Freindship - a gloriously over-the-top spoof of sentimental romance, complete with heroines who faint on cue and villains undone by their own melodrama - alongside Lesley Castle and her mock history of England, this collection shows a young writer already dismantling the literary conventions she would later master and transcend. Sharper, longer, and more confident than Volume I, these pieces are essential reading for anyone who wants to see exactly how Jane Austen learned to turn irony into an art form.