{"product_id":"volume-the-second-by-jane-austen","title":"Volume the Second by Jane Austen","description":"\u003cp\u003eForever immortalised as the author of \u003cem\u003ePride and Prejudice\u003c\/em\u003e, Jane Austen actually produced her first 'books' as a teenager. Taking their names from the inscriptions on their covers - \u003cem\u003eVolume the First, Volume the Second\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eVolume the Third\u003c\/em\u003e - these brilliant little collections include the stories, playlets, verses, and moral fragments she wrote likely from the ages of 12 to 18.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs a young author, Jane Austen delighted in language, employing it with great humour and surprising skill. She was adept at parodying the popular stories of her day and entertained her readers with outrageous plotlines and characters. Kathryn Sutherland places Austen's earliest works in context and explains how she mimicked even the style and manner in which this contemporary popular fiction was presented and arranged on the page.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eVolume the Second\u003c\/em\u003e, housed at the British Library, contains Austen's famous \u003cem\u003eThe History of England\u003c\/em\u003e, illustrated with watercolour portraits by her sister Cassandra, as well as \u003cem\u003eLove and Friendship, Lesley Castle\u003c\/em\u003e, and several letters and fragments she calls \"scraps\".\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis notebook was compiled between June 1790 and June 1793, from ages 14 to 17.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNone of her six famous novels survives in complete manuscript form. This is a unique opportunity to own likenesses of Jane Austen's notebooks as originally written - in her own hand.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLearn more about the other books in the \u003cem\u003eIn Her Own Hand series: Volume the First\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eVolume the Third\u003c\/em\u003e. All three volumes are also available in the \u003cem\u003eIn Her Own Hand\u003c\/em\u003e series boxed set.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Abbeville Press Inc.,U.S.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54252810469720,"sku":"9780789212009","price":22.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780789212009.jpg?v=1743240648","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/volume-the-second-by-jane-austen","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}