From the age of eleven until she was eighteen, Jane Austen wrote her tales in three notebooks.
The notebooks still exist - one in the Bodleian Library; the other two in the British Museum.
This is from Jane Austen's childhood, and despite their rough nature, they offer something of value: not just the insight they give us into Austen's thinking and her mind, but there is a certain charm here, a thing to value in its own.
Wildside Press Love and friendship by jane austen, fiction, classics, paperback/jane austen
