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Early stories tell of postponed weddings, shallow friends, a reluctant bride, and a duke's tragic decline.

Perhaps as early as 1787, Austen began to write poems, stories, and plays for her own and her family's amusement. Austen later compiled "fair copies" of these early works into three bound notebooks, now referred to as the "Juvenilia," containing pieces originally written between 1787 and 1793.

"Jane Austen Juvenilia and Short Stories" is a collection of all Jane Austen's short and un-finished works as well as her Juvenilia that was written during her childhood. The Juvenilia has been taken from three of Jane Austen's notebooks and they are in a variety of genres (drama, verses, stories and moral fragments).The earliest pieces (Volume The First) probably date from 1786 or 1787 when Jane Austen left the Abbey House School in Reading while she was aged 11 or 12.Included in this collection:I. Short Stories and Unfinished Works:1. Lady Suzan2. The Watsons3. Sandition4. Plan of a Novel5. Sir Charles GrandisonII. Juvenilia Works:1. Juvenilia -- Volume the First: Frederic & Elfrida Jack and Alice Edgar & Emma Henry and Eliza The Adventures of Mr. Harley Sir William Mountague Memoirs of Mr. Clifford The Beautifull Cassandra Amelia Webster The Visit The Mystery The Three Sisters Detached Pieces 2. Juvenilia -- Volume the Second: Love And Freindship Lesley Castle The History of England A Collection of Letters The Female Philosopher The First Act of A Comedy A Letter From a Young Lady A Tour Through Wales A Tale3. Juvenilia -- Volume the Third: Evelyn Catharine

Jane Austen (16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817) was an English novelist known principally for her five major novels which interpret, critique and comment upon the life of the British landed gentry at the end of the 18th century. Her most highly praised novel during her own lifetime was Pride and Prejudice which was her second published novel. Her plots often reflect upon the dependence of women on marriage in the pursuit of favorable social standing and economic security. Austen's main novels are rarely out of print today though they were first published anonymously and brought her little personal fame with only a few glancing reviews during her lifetime. A significant transition in her posthumous reputation as an author occurred in 1869, fifty-two years after her death, when her nephew published A Memoir of Jane Austen which effectively introduced her to a wider public and reading audience. Austen's most successful novel in her own lifetime was Pride and Prejudice which went through two editions during her own life. Her third published novel was Mansfield Park which was largely overlooked by the professional reviewers though it was a great success with the public still within her lifetime. All five of her major novels were published for the first time between 1811 and 1818. From 1811 until 1816, with the premiere publication of Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814) and Emma (1815), she achieved success as a published writer. She wrote two additional novels Northanger Abbey and Persuasion, both published posthumously in 1818, and began another one, which was eventually titled Sanditon, but died before completing it.

Composed of serialized works, poems, short tales, and novellas, Charlotte Brontë's juvenilia merit serious scholarly attention as revelatory works in and of themselves as well as for what they tell us about the development of Brontë as a writer. This timely collection attends to both critical strands, positioning Brontë as an author whose career encompassed the Romantic and Victorian eras and delving into the developing nineteenth century's literary concerns as well as the growth of the writer's mind. As the contributors show, Brontë's authorship took shape among the pages of her juvenilia, as figures from Brontë's childhood experience of the world such as Wellington and Napoleon transmuted to her fictional pages, while her siblings' works and worlds both overlapped with and extended beyond her own.