A review by tabbycattt
Love and Friendship by Jane Austen

this was soooo fun!!!!! i haven't read any of austen's juvenilia before, and 15 year old austen is just like me fr. it's ridiculous, goofy, satirical, and in the essay i just wrote i argued that it's basically just austen writing fanfiction for all the novels she reads. the characters don't have a lot of depth and it's all very silly because of the parody-like nature of it (waiting for your best friend to finish her fainting spell so you can have yours when there's only one couch, hallucinating about all the meals to skipped to look beautifully consumptive, convincing your friend that if your father approves of the man you likes, said man must be evil) but that's all part of the charm. i can't wait to read more of austen's juvenilia, especially her history of england.