Love and Freindship (sic)* is a wickedly funny epistolary novella written by Jane Austen that parodies the late 18th century cult of sensibility in Great Britain and Europe. The main characters such as the narrator Laura are constantly overcome by their emotions and feel that it is much better to be guided by emotions then by common sense. Austen would later give this theme a more mature treatment in Sense and Sensibility. Love and Freindship is considered part of Jane Austen's "juvenilia", but if you read it you will be amazed that she was only fourteen when she wrote it.


Love and Freindship - Title Page
Love and Freindship - Letter 1: Isabel to Laura
Love and Freindship - Letter 2: Laura to Isabel
Love and Freindship - Letter 3: Laura to Marianne
Love and Freindship - Letter 4: Laura to Marianne
Love and Freindship - Letter 5: Laura to Marianne
Love and Freindship - Letter 6: Laura to Marianne
Love and Freindship - Letter 7: Laura to Marianne
Love and Freindship - Letter 8: Laura to Marianne
Love and Freindship - Letter 9: Laura to Marianne
Love and Freindship - Letter 10: Laura to Marianne
Love and Freindship - Letter 11: Laura to Marianne
Love and Freindship - Letter 12: Laura to Marianne
Love and Freindship - Letter 13: Laura to Marianne
Love and Freindship - Letter 14: Laura to Marianne
Love and Freindship - Letter 15: Laura to Marianne


* I have retained this mispelling in following my printed edition.