{"product_id":"volume-the-second-in-her-own-hand-9780789212009","title":"Volume the Second: In Her Own Hand","description":"\u003cp\u003eForever immortalized as the author of \u003cem\u003ePride and Prejudice\u003c\/em\u003e, Jane Austen actually produced her first \"books\" as a teenager. Taking their names from the inscriptions on their covers--\u003cem\u003eVolume the First, Volume the Second\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eVolume the Third\u003c\/em\u003e--these brilliant little collections include the stories, playlets, verses, and moral fragments she wrote likely from the ages of twelve to eighteen.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs a young author, Jane Austen delighted in language, employing it with great humor and surprising skill. She was adept at parodying the popular stories of her day and entertained her readers with outrageous plotlines and characters. Kathryn Sutherland places Austen's earliest works in context and explains how she mimicked even the style and manner in which this contemporary popular fiction was presented and arranged on the page.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cem\u003eVolume the Second\u003c\/em\u003e, housed at the British Library, contains Austen's famous \"The History of England,\" illustrated with watercolor portraits by her sister Cassandra, as well as \"Love and Friendship,\" \"Lesley Castle,\" and several letters and fragments she calls scraps. This notebook was compiled between June 1790 and June 1793, from ages fourteen to seventeen.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNone of her six famous novels survives in complete manuscript form. This is a unique opportunity to own likenesses of Jane Austen's notebooks as originally written--in her own hand.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLearn more about the other books in the In Her Own Hand series: \u003cem\u003e Volume the First\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eVolume the Third.\u003c\/em\u003e All three volumes are also available in the \u003cem\u003eIn Her Own Hand\u003c\/em\u003e boxed set.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Abbeville Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/21\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780789212009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.55lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.70h x 6.90w x 1.00d","brand":"Jane Austen","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43799726260405,"sku":"9780789212009","price":21.21,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_d8a43efd-7042-4ad0-b3d7-3a0bc83d09dd.jpg?v=1711477443","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/volume-the-second-in-her-own-hand-9780789212009","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}