Jane Austen FREDERIC AND ELFRIDA: A NOVEL reading | Juvenilia Writing | 18th Century Literature

A reading of Jane Austen’s joyfully silly ‘Frederic and Elfrida: A Novel’. A reading from Jane Austen’s juvenilia writing in Volume the First (written c.1787). What happens to Frederic & Elfrida? What happens to the amiable Rebecca and Captain Roger? What happens to the lovely Charlotte after her two proposals? Who “was in such a hurry to have a succession of fainting fits, that she had scarcely patience enough to recover from one before she fell into another”?
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JANE AUSTEN READING
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[@icoutsidethebox]

“... excited in me an admiration of which I can alone give an adequate idea by assuring you it is nearly equal to what I feel for myself.” 😆 Hysterical! Jane Austen- brilliant and with razor sharp wit even in her youth. She said the quiet parts out loud.

[@LeannaRuthJensen]

Jane wrote her earliest works to entertain her family. Listening to you read this I closed my eyes and saw Jane seated in a drawing room reading it out to them with a wry smile on her face. The signs of budding genius are there for all to see.

[@kimberleyjanemcnab5343]

As you read these short stories by Jane Austin, you can feel the hilarity around the evening tea things at the home of the Austin’s.

[@krazyriti]

Good lord I'm barely a third of the way through and I am WHEEZING!! This reminds me of that post about Lord Cucumberly that began as a parody of Austen's writing. Joke's on them 😂 Austen parodied her own writing before she ever got published 😂😂😂 Thank you so much for bringing this to my notice. I'll have to look for a copy of this story to read when I'm not in the best of moods

[@DrOctaviaCox]

Ha! - Brilliant! Yes, even in her six main novels (or the 'mature' works as they are sometimes called) Austen parodies writing styles and conventions (esp. bad, hackneyed writing). In Pride and Prejudice, for example, she jokily mentions how cliched the phrase "violently-in-love" is, only for Darcy to be "violently-in-love" towards the end of the novel ("he expressed himself on the occasion as sensibly and as warmly as a man violently in love can be supposed to do", ch.58). She takes no prisoners - even herself!

[@krazyriti]

@@DrOctaviaCox oh yes! That flip of the phrase is one of my favorite things about her craft. It lends itself so beautifully to the satirical nature of the subversion she creates

[@mesamies123]

Thank you, Dr. Cox, for your brilliant readings of Jane Austen and other Classic British writers. You encourage and inspire all of us to (re)read Austen et al. (I'm reading Frances Burney's *Evelina for the first time-- thanks to your excellent work. Thank you!)

[@DrOctaviaCox]

Oh wow! - A wonderful book. And so interesting to read in relation to Austen.

[@londongael414]

Chuckled all the way through this - thank you so much. I could hear little echoes of Austen's published novels - the cousin love, the instant intimacy of "strict friendship", the double engagement... Perhaps my favourite bit was the elderly gentleman, falling at Charlotte's feet "partly through intention and partly through weakness". Young Jane's only difficulty must have been to damp down that fountain of invention and liveliness. And, I don't normally comment on your appearance, which is always lovely, but I must say, you look stunning today!

[@DrOctaviaCox]

Yes, it's wonderful to see the young Austen play with her invention and liveliness. I also think it's telling that even at this young age she seems to have a dislike of 'perfect' women such as the always "lovely Charlotte" who pleases others to such an extent that she injures herself.

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And thank you - that's very kind of you to say.

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Thanks!

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Thank you! - that's very kind of you.

[@Heothbremel]

Love the fairytale elements I see in here.... gonna have to do a run through Austen looking for more now!!!!

[@DrOctaviaCox]

Oh her juvenilia is wonderful for playing with 'ideals' and puncturing novelistic conventions!

[@hannahmusick8622]

I don't know how you managed to read this without laughing. I've given up trying to read the juvenalia out loud to my husband because I can't keep the giggles away.

[@DrOctaviaCox]

What's your response to Jane Austen’s ‘Frederic & Elfrida: A Novel’?

[@hathinlace2721]

I was pretty young when I read it the first time and took everything so literally that it traumatized me 🤣🤣🤣. This was the only story I had been able to read then. I'm glad I got a chance to revisit this story with the benefit of a better understanding of Austen 💕. This story does remind me of the writing style of Northanger Abbey

[@mrs.manrique7411]

Thank you for narrating this story! I’ve always wanted to read the whole of it ever since I first watched the 1999 Mansfield Park adaptation.

[@micheleb385]

Oh how fun! Reminds me of the Story Club written of in Anne of Green Gables.

[@zappawench6048]

I wondered if this was a 1st April joke, but apparently not! I am utterly nonplussed at this communication!

[@winterkoeniginwinternacht2882]

Delightful! 😂 Thank you for reading this gem to us!

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Could you please do a video on lady Susan, please? That would be amazing. Thank you.

[@njgop1572]

@Dr. Cox, have you seen Amazon’s Vanity Fair yet? It’s a mini-series & the actress is an amazing Rebecca! I thought of you while watching it. They make Thackeray himself the Narrator. It’s fantastic!

[@HRJohn1944]

Absolutely wonderful - thank you

[@markteltscher9746]

Have you learnt anything from the Juvenilia writing where she may have got some inspiration for the fictional characters in her six completed novels?

[@DrOctaviaCox]

That's a great question! What I particularly notice in the juvenilia is less about individual characters and more about narrative management. In the juvenilia the characters appear more as vehicles through which the narrative shines. These are exercises in how to present events happening to characters, it seems to me, rather than explorations of well-rounded, believable characters (something that Austen excels in in her later fiction, of course). In this aspect I think you can especially detect Northanger Abbey's juvenilian roots.

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[@laurenc.590]

Oh my goodness, where has this been hiding? Thank you for the introduction! 😂

[@jelyfisher]

Oh my I'm quite in tears. This is too hilarious.

[@a24-45]

What a wicked satire on the trashy romance stories of the day! BTW at 14.34, what you spoke as "Dame Elfrida" is written "Dam me Elfrida" with a french aigue on the final "e" of Dam me. It hardly seems possible that Austen would not know how to spell a courtly title such as Dame correctly. I think that the character is instead exclaiming "Damn me, Eldfrida,". It certainly fits the male character and the scene. I'm chuckling to myself, thinking that naughty Austen has snuck a swear word into this private work, which could never have been allowed in any of her published works.

[@halledaymusic]

I do hope you will analyse this one also. I just discovered this channel and am loving it.

[@AD-hs2bq]

Hilarious! Thank you so much

[@Tevildo]

I _do_ like "seven days now being expired, together with the lovely Charlotte". Is that a formal syllepsis?

[@mmariedennis]

It was enjoyable. I always wondered if Austen's characters were based on real people in her life she wished to insult. Either way, she entertains and that's all that matters.

[@davidplatten8827]

I just wish you and KZbin had been around when I was teaching P&P for 'O' level back in the 70's. !

[@diannadeeley5402]

*Snicker* Boy, she overwrote madly!

[@honesty3440]

Everything is so interesting! Unfortunately difficult to follow since are ADS EVERY 3 min.‼️

[@llw1361]

A sarcastic wit for sure!

[@greendiamondglow]

this sounds like a dream

[@isabellearaujo8991]

4:25 poor Rebecca 😅

[@isabellearaujo8991]

KKKKKKKKK damn, Jane was a savage! That is indeed much clearer sarcasm than we see in her novels 5:31

[@isabellearaujo8991]

9:30 tava esperando o momento em que a amiability da Charlotte chegasse num nível a criar problemas kkkkk

[@isabellearaujo8991]

Damn she killed herself 😳

[@isabellearaujo8991]

10:44 😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@isabellearaujo8991]

11:44 KKKKKKKK DEU CARAI

[@katherinewilson1853]

This is hilarious.

[@sixeses]

This made me wonder if someone wrote about the names Jane Austen used ?

[@IdrilSilmarien]

😂🤣😂🤣