1790
Jane Austen
Love and Freindship [sic]
B
At 33 pages in this edition, this is double the length of Austen's previously longest work, Jack and Alice, and is probably the best known of her juvenilia. Years before she started on Sense & Sensibility, she offers a sentimental but amoral heroine who tells the story of her life from just before marriage to just after widowhood. This has the famous advice, "Run mad as often as you chuse [sic]; but do not faint." Also, it parodies the father/daughter reunion scene in Evelina, here with a grandfather meeting up with four grandchildren.
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