Love and Freindship
Author: first_name: Jane
last_name: Austen
Language: English
Year: 1790

<i>Love and Freindship</i> [sic] is a juvenile story by Jane Austen, dated 1790, when Austen was 14 years old. <i>Love and Freindship</i> (the misspelling is one of many in the story) is clearly a parody of romantic novels Austen read as a child. This is clear even from the subtitle, "Deceived in Freindship and Betrayed in Love," which neatly undercuts the title.<br /><br />Written in epistolary form, it resembles a fairy tale as much as anything else, featuring wild coincidences and turns of fo