Jane Austen HENRY AND ELIZA: A NOVEL reading | Juvenilia Writing | 18th Century English Literature

A reading of Jane Austen’s playful ‘Henry and Eliza: A Novel’, from her juvenilia writing in Volume the First (written December 1788 - January 1789). How does the fair Eliza fare? A tale of bank-note robbery, elopement, dungeons, & a Man of War.
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[@debbiericker8223]

That was just delightfully absurd. I can imagine JA reading this to her family. Thank you, Dr. Cox, for sharing her juvenilia with us. I was completely unfamiliar with it until I started watching your channel.

[@AD-hs2bq]

So delightful. I love seeing her handwriting with corrections. This is so absurd, whimsical and clever. Jane must have been the liveliest, most imaginative child. Thank you!

[@HRJohn1944]

What an absolutely amazing imagination, and wicked sense of fun from a thirteen-year-old (she was born in mid-December. 1775) "....a love of virtue and a hatred of vice,, in which they so well succeeded, Eliza having a natural, turn that way herself..,,,When, happening one day to be detected stealing a banknote of £50..." And it just gets better and better! - no wonder she could create a character like Lucy Steele. The more one reads of her bad girls coming up smelling of roses, the more I'm convinced that Thackeray must have been inspired to create Becky by reading JA. But I suppose that there is no evidence that WMT had sight of her juvenilia, is there?

[@salondesrefuses]

Wait a minute, 13? Wow

[@RaysDad]

"No sooner had Eliza entered her dungeon then the first thought which occurred to her, was how to get out of it again. She went to the door, but it was locked." Wonderful!

[@emmahardesty4330]

Funny, witty, fantastic little Jane. Thanks, very much, for reading this.

[@This1sS0Stup1d]

If Austen were alive today she’d be an amazing comedian.

[@SpanishEclectic]

Her turn of phrase is enchanting, though the story is indeed fanciful. I noted bits of a "Becky Sharp" type life in this character. Really fun to see the actual handwritten manuscript. Thank you for showing it as you read. :)

[@jeanettewishall6362]

I absolutely loved this. So fun and silly. I hope it encourages any and all aspiring writers of alll ages.

[@elenamullins1780]

I was hoping you'd make some comments on the story, but your reading of it was entertaining enough! Thank you so much for what you do, I love your work!!!

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What is your response to Jane Austen’s ‘Henry and Eliza: A Novel’?

[@sjiva7061]

Thank you for sharing this. I really like these stories. They are rather fanciful. I do wonder, how old was Jane Austen when she wrote these?

[@mahafarid1]

What an extraordinary, independent, rebellious woman, this Eliza of Jane Austen! The exaggerations are hilarious and wonderful -- does she really lose two fingers to her straving children?! But still she is a far better mother than her own who forgot she even existed! I just love these Juvenilias of Austen, as they give us such an insight into the remarkable mind of her at a young age. What is she thinking playing, mocking, making fun of moral, societal expectations? Thank you for posting. Always a pleasure to watch your videos.

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@@mahafarid1 I really enjoyed the line in "Jack and Alice" about Alice's drunkenness that goes something like: "She has many rare and valuable qualities; sobriety is not one of them."

[@tedmccarthy4761]

I was reminded of the mystery of Tom Jones's birth, and of the "birth-mysteries" in Terence's plays.. I would guess that in many Gothic novels there are these kinds of mysteries which when solved result in overcoming the obstacles to the heroine's happiness.

[@mesamies123]

BRILLIANT! Is Eliza an early prototype, if one will, for Lady Susan? What an imagination! Thank you!

[@jelyfisher]

How fun! I laughed through the entire story.

[@GrumpyYank26]

Wonderful!!!

[@frankupton5821]

Brilliant! I suppose 'Henry and Eliza' was the origin of the song 'There's a Hole in the Bucket [dear Liza, dear Liza.......].

[@AndriaBieberDesigns]

What a great story!

[@GenXBecks]

I laughed out loud so many times. Wonderful.

[@nyckolaus]

fabulous

[@--enyo--]

From reading ‘Fanny Hill’ I think I was reading a different meaning behind a lot of the words. 😅 Especially the ‘duchess’.

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I love your videos and I have a question for you if you have the time. I am currently reading Middlemarch and there are a lot of instances of shrugging shoulders. Did shrugging one's shoulders mean something different back then? When it occurs it doesn't seem to fit my idea of shrugging as "I don't know."

[@byusaranicole]

Hahaha... That was highly amusing!

[@tessat338]

Wait, so who was Henry? I don't remember any character mentioned by that name.😆 Oooooh! Cecil was his LAST name and Henry was his first name! Got it!

[@salondesrefuses]

So these two were spending nearly twice Mr Darcy's yearly income

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This is a fun comedy

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Witty Jane

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