• Episode 93: The Thing About Austen's Teenage Writings with guest Dr. Kathryn Sutherland

  • Jul 10 2024
  • Length: 52 mins
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Episode 93: The Thing About Austen's Teenage Writings with guest Dr. Kathryn Sutherland

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  • Jane Austen's early works, contained within three surviving notebooks, are funny, sharp, and brimming over with personality. This episode we are joined by Dr. Kathryn Sutherland, one of the editors of the Oxford World’s Classics edition of Austen’s Teenage Writings, to discuss the nature of these writings, the way they were consumed by her family audience, and their relationship to her later novels.

    Thank you so much to Kathryn for joining us for this episode! You can learn more about her and her work at https://www.english.ox.ac.uk/people/professor-kathryn-sutherland.

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Insights into Austen’s earliest writings

Fascinating discussion of Austen’s “teenage writings” that puts these works in their original context; argues for appreciating them in their own right; and suggests how traces of them reappear and animate Austen’s later novels.

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