Love and Other Youthful Writings Edition:Alma Classics and ignorant Historian' - and

and ignorant Historian' - and the novella 'Lady Susan'

But despite the slim chance of success

Award-winning journalist Dolly Alderton survived her twenties (just about) and in Everything I Know About Love

and a trained soldier

Love and Other Youthful Writings Edition:Alma Classics and ignorant Historian' - andJane Austen's earliest writing dates from when she was just eleven years, and already shows the hallmarks of her mature work: wit, acute insight into human folly, and a preoccupation with manners, morals and money. But they are also a product of the eighteenth century she grew up in dark, grotesque, often surprisingly bawdy, and a far cry from the polished, sparkling novels of manners for which she became famous. Drunken heroines, babies who bite off