Love and Freindship

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Love and Freindship [sic] is a juvenile story by Jane Austen, dated 1790. While aged 11–18, Austen wrote her tales in three notebooks. These still exist, one in the Bodleian Library and the other two in the British Museum. They contain, among other works, Love and Freindship, written when she was 14, and The History of England, written at 15. Scholars consider it a significant milestone in Austen's development as a novelist, particularly in its parody of the “cult of sensibility.”

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