Scribblings
Before Pride and Prejudice, a teenage Jane Austen was already taking aim. Scribblings collects the work that bookends her career: the riotous juvenilia she wrote to make her family laugh — lovers fainting alternately on a sofa, a History of England by “a partial, prejudiced and ignorant Historian” — alongside the two novels she began and never finished. She set The Watsons aside around 1805; Sanditon was cut short by her final illness in 1817. Together they are Austen unguarded: the first jokes and the last pages.
The Watsons appears here in the 1923 edition in which L. Oulton carried Austen’s fragment through to an ending; the preface is by her nephew, James Edward Austen-Leigh.
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Chapters
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Love and Freindship
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Lesley Castle
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The History of England
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A Collection of Letters
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Scraps
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The Watsons — Preface
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The Watsons — Chapter I
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The Watsons — Chapter II
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The Watsons — Chapter III
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The Watsons — Chapter IV
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The Watsons — Chapter V
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The Watsons — Chapter VI
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The Watsons — Chapter VII
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The Watsons — Chapter VIII
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The Watsons — Chapter IX
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The Watsons — Chapter X
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The Watsons — Chapter XI
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The Watsons — Chapter XII
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The Watsons — Chapter XIII
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The Watsons — Chapter XIV
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The Watsons — Chapter XV
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The Watsons — Chapter XVI
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The Watsons — Chapter XVII
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The Watsons — Chapter XVIII
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The Watsons — Chapter XIX
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Sanditon — Preface
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Sanditon — Chapter 1
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Sanditon — Chapter 2
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Sanditon — Chapter 3
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Sanditon — Chapter 4
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Sanditon — Chapter 5
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Sanditon — Chapter 6
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Sanditon — Chapter 7
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Sanditon — Chapter 8
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Sanditon — Chapter 9
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Sanditon — Chapter 10
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Sanditon — Chapter 11
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