LOVE & FREINDSHIP AND OTHER EARLY WORKS A Collection of Juvenile Writings By Jane Austen CONTENTS LOVE AND FREINDSHIP LETTER the FIRST From ISABEL to LAURA LETTER 2nd LAURA to ISABEL LETTER 3rd LAURA to MARIANNE LETTER 4th Laura to MARIANNE LETTER 5th LAURA to MARIANNE LETTER 6th LAURA to MARIANNE LETTER 7th LAURA to MARIANNE LETTER 8th LAURA to MARIANNE, in continuation LETTER the 9th From the same to the same LETTER 10th LAURA in continuation LETTER 11th LAURA in continuation LETTER the 12th LAURA in continuation LETTER the 13th LAURA in continuation LETTER the 14th LAURA in continuation LETTER the 15th LAURA in continuation. AN UNFINISHED NOVEL IN LETTERS LESLEY CASTLE LETTER the FIRST is from Miss MARGARET LESLEY to Miss CHARLOTTE LUTTERELL LETTER the SECOND From Miss C. LUTTERELL to Miss M. LESLEY in answer. LETTER the THIRD From Miss MARGARET LESLEY to Miss C. LUTTERELL LETTER the FOURTH From Miss C. LUTTERELL to Miss M. LESLEY LETTER the FIFTH Miss MARGARET LESLEY to Miss CHARLOTTE LUTTERELL LETTER the SIXTH LADY LESLEY to Miss CHARLOTTE LUTTERELL LETTER the SEVENTH From Miss C. LUTTERELL to Miss M. LESLEY LETTER the EIGHTH Miss LUTTERELL to Mrs MARLOWE LETTER the NINTH Mrs MARLOWE to Miss LUTTERELL LETTER the TENTH From Miss MARGARET LESLEY to Miss CHARLOTTE LUTTERELL THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND A COLLECTION OF LETTERS To Miss COOPER LETTER the FIRST From a MOTHER to her FREIND. LETTER the SECOND From a YOUNG LADY crossed in Love to her freind LETTER the THIRD From a YOUNG LADY in distressed Circumstances to her freind LETTER the FOURTH From a YOUNG LADY rather impertinent to her freind LETTER the FIFTH From a YOUNG LADY very much in love to her Freind THE FEMALE PHILOSOPHER THE FIRST ACT OF A COMEDY A LETTER from a YOUNG LADY, whose feelings being too strong A TOUR THROUGH WALES—in a LETTER from a YOUNG LADY— A TALE. LOVE AND FREINDSHIP TO MADAME LA COMTESSE DE FEUILLIDE THIS NOVEL IS INSCRIBED BY HER OBLIGED HUMBLE SERVANT THE AUTHOR. “Deceived in Freindship and Betrayed in Love.” LETTER the FIRST From ISABEL to LAURA How often, in answer to my repeated intreaties that you would give my Daughter a regular detail of the Misfortunes and Adventures of your Life, have you said “No, my freind never will I comply with your request till I may be no longer in Danger of again experiencing such dreadful ones.” Surely that time is now at hand. You are this day 55. If a woman may ever be said to be in safety from the determined Perseverance of disagreeable Lovers and the cruel Persecutions of obstinate Fathers, surely it must be at such a time of Life. Isabel LETTER 2nd LAURA to ISABEL