Juvenilia: Austen’s Raucous Early Works

Juvenilia: Austen’s Raucous Early Works

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S1 E3: Many readers come to Austen’s fiction thinking that they are about to encounter sedate, small-scale, realistic stories. But as you will see, when Austen first began writing as a teenager, her style and her subjects were far more risk-taking and boisterously comic. Explore her juvenilia and discover the surprising beginnings of her literary efforts.