The Life and Works of Jane Austen

Juvenilia: Austen's Raucous Early Works (1x3)

Air date: Jan 29, 2021

Many readers come to Austen’s fiction thinking that they are about to encounter sedate, small-scale, realistic stories. But as you will see in this lesson, 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.