We all remember the scandalous elopements of Whickham and Lydia in P&P or of Henry Crawford and married Maria Rushworth in Mansfield Park. She would tell about them in her major novels too, of course. Peculiar is Jane Austen’s gleeful narrative employment of scandalous actions like seduction, elopement and divorce. It contains some amusing bits, a number of separate sub-plots and supporting characters. This is clear even from the subtitle, "Deceived in Freindship and Betrayed in Love", which undercuts the title.Lesley Castle was probably written in early 1792 (when Jane was 16).
Love and Freindship (the misspelling is one of many in the story) is clearly a parody of romantic novels Austen read as a child. The installments, written as letters from the heroine Laura, to Marianne, the daughter of her friend Isabel, may have come about as nightly readings by the young Jane in the Austen home. It was dedicated to her cousin Eliza de Feuillide, known as "La Comtesse de Feuillide". Written in epistolary form like her later unpublished novella, Lady Susan, Love and Freindship is thought to be one of the tales she wrote for the amusement of her family. If you carefully spell check the title of the book you would know Jane Austen's innocence while writing this work. They contain, among other works, Love and Freindship, written when she was fourteen, and The History of England, written when she was fifteen. These still exist, one in the Bodleian Library and the other two in the British Museum.
From the age of eleven until she was eighteen, Austen wrote her tales in three notebooks. Love and Freindship is a juvenile story by Jane Austen, dated 1790.
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