JANE AUSTEN ‘Amelia Webster’ Reading-Jane Austen Juvenilia Writing-18th Century English Literature

A reading of JANE AUSTEN’s juvenilia writing, a mini epistolary novel entitled ‘Amelia Webster’ from Volume the First (written c.1787). ‘Amelia Webster’ is one of Jane Austen’s earliest pieces of writing.
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JANE AUSTEN READING
JANE AUSTEN JUVENILIA
JANE AUSTEN WRITING
18th CENTURY ENGLISH LITERATURE
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[@AD-hs2bq]

These are delightful. I get the drift that Jane was making absurd conventions of the day more absurd. What a wonderful sense of humor! Thank you!

[@DrOctaviaCox]

Absolutely. JA throughout her juvenilia exposes the absurdities of conventions (especially novelistic conventions) by pushing them to ridiculous extremes. This playfulness is toned down to some extent in the later novels but the kernel remains!

[@sarahtalone6251]

Dr. Octavia, it was a particularly anxious week, waiting for a new video of yours. I've been diving into some of your JA's analysis videos, and because of them, I have decided to try again to read Emma, but in a more analytical and profound way. It is a most rewarding read, I've advanced more than I thought I'd have the interest to. Next should be Persuasion, or Mansfield Park, or the lively Pride and Prejudice. I can't seem to decide. However, I've also been watching your 19th century literature playlist, through which I've found that poetry can indeed be truly fascinating, and that it seems that John Keats is my new favorite. Upon hearing your analysis and explanations, I have to ask a question: how does one learn to do such close examinations? I'd imagine it starts by comprehending the poem, but how does one understand it? I myself have never been interested in poetry, because I couldn't understand them, however, now I have every wish of doing so. Could this basic understanding be passed on to us, ignorant literature lovers, at some point, through a simple text, or a video? Thank you very much, dr., once again, for your wonderful reading!

[@londongael]

So funny! I love how confusing it all is (who the hell is Tom?), and how Matilda writes only to say she has no time to write. She must be getting her letters franked!

[@silenceetsolitude5649]

Thank you, Dr. Octavia! Greetings from Brazil!

[@vineethg6259]

Thank you for this! I have read only a few Juvenilia of Austen as yet, and hadn't read this one. Loved the subtle humour in the story, considering that she was only 11-12 when she wrote this! She evidently had a gift for seeing through all these pretensions and facades and satirizing them in such a subtle manner even at an early age. Aside from that, a little detail that I loved about her early works is her spellings (or mispellings) of certain words - like the order of 'i' and 'e' in 'freind' and 'beleive'. But considering that she seems to have spelled 'convenient' correctly in Letter #4 (though the dot of the 'i' appears to have ended up over the 'n'), could it be because the order of 'i' and 'e' weren't standardised at the time for certain words where their individual sounds weren't so distinct in the pronunciation? (Perhaps similar to the case of 'an' being used before words like 'humble', 'hundred', 'union' etc in her works?)

[@dorothywillis1]

Some of us Janeites misspell "freind" and "neice" deliberately as a sort of secret signal to other Janeites!

[@vineethg6259]

@@dorothywillis1 After all, a _'Janeite'_ would be nothing more than a _'Janiete'_ if there weren't that iconic _'ei'_ ! 😉

[@markteltscher9746]

Notice that the dedication to Mrs Austen is similar to Austen's tribute to the Prince Regent in Emma. Are you aware that the only Austen authorial presentation copy First Edition is now on the market for £375k. It was presented to Anne Sharp.

[@dorothywillis1]

Wouldn't it be wonderful to discover Jane Austen's letters to Miss Sharp? (I love that her name is "Sharp." Surely it is just a coincidence!)

[@darthlaurel]

I've never read these. That was hilarious.

[@GardenGirl33]

What was the point of that series of letters???

[@dorothywillis1]

That they were pointless.

[@krishanuchattopadhyay7006]

😎

[@Tonya05]

I laughed and said how cheeky - so much more about Austen to adore.

[@angelalewis3645]

So funny!

[@Khatoon170]

How are you doing dr octavia thank you for wonderful cultural channel for literature lovers too really Jane Austen was great author even in her early career as you just mentioned and Amila Webster was juvenilia writing before Jane Austen was widely known for her six complete novels she was youthful story teller who wrote humorous tales for amusement of her family and friends in more recent years Austen juvenile has been put in spotlight given adaptation treatment that was previously only bestowed on her most famous works

[@Khatoon170]

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