Love and Friendship

Jane AustenAos AuLove and FreindshipAu [sic] is an epistolary story, written in 1790 when she was fourteen, and dedicated to her cousin Eliza de Feuillide.

Featuring improbable coincidences and turns of fate, In form, the story satirizes conventional romance novels of the time, and shows the early development of wit and observation that would make Austen one of the most famous of all British writers.

Even the subtitle, AuDeceived in Freindship and Betrayed in LoveAu, shows a command of irony that Austen would later deploy in such classics as AuPride and PrejudiceAu and AuSense and SensibilityAu.