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Jane Austen ‘Volume the First’: autograph fair copy, 1793 (MS. Don. e. 7, p. 116)
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Jane Austen ‘Volume the First’: autograph fair copy, 1793 (MS. Don. e. 7, p. 117)
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
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Jane Austen ‘Volume the First’: autograph fair copy, 1793 (MS. Don. e. 7, p. 118)
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
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Jane Austen ‘Volume the First’: autograph fair copy, 1793 (MS. Don. e. 7, p. 119)
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Jane Austen (1775–1817)
‘The Beautifull Cassandra’ is one of sixteen short works in ‘Volume the First’, a collection of juvenilia composed while Jane Austen was between twelve and fifteen years old. Consisting of twelve chapters compressed into three pages, this novella is a parody of sentimental literary convention and style: the heroine falls in love with a bonnet, ‘devours’ and refuses to pay for six ice creams, knocks down a pastry cook and runs away. This, according to the young Austen, was ‘a day well spent’.