文档介绍：Love and Friendship
by Jane Austen
作者简介
奥斯汀简( ),小说家,生于汉普
郡史蒂文顿,父亲是当地的教区长。她一生中前年在这里度过,后
来在巴斯、南安普敦、乔顿和温切斯特等地居住。她在家中七个孩子
中排行第五,孩提时代就为全家的欢乐而写作,《爱与友谊》(
)就是在这个时期写的。她早期发表的作品讽
刺当时轰动一时的小说,运用常识判断表面戏剧性的环境。后来又发
展这一技巧用以评价普通人的行为。部长篇小说中,部在此时匿名
发表,两部在她死后出版,发表时有作者生前的签名。年出版的
《理智与感伤》()动笔于年;《傲慢
与偏见》( )年面世;《曼斯菲尔德花园》
( ) 年着手写作, 年出版;《爱玛》
( ) 年问世。两部遗作都在年出版;《劝导》
()写于年,《诺桑觉寺》( )
年开始写作,年卖给出版商,并未受到重视,书稿于年
被收回。
Love and Friendship 1
Love and Friendship
LETTER the FIRST
From ISABEL to LAURA
How often, in answer to my repeated intreaties that you would give my
Daughter a regular detail of the Misfortunes and Adventures of your Life,
have you said “No, my freind never will ply with your request till I
may be no longer in Danger of again experiencing such dreadful ones.”
Surely that time is now at hand. You are this day 55. If a woman may
ever be said to be in safety from the determined Perseverance of disagree-
able Lovers and the cruel Persecutions of obstinate Fathers, surely it must
be at such a time of Life. Isabel
LETTER 2nd
LAURA to ISABEL
Altho’ I cannot agree with you in supposing that I shall never again be
exposed to Misfortunes as unmerited as those I have already experienced,
yet to avoid the imputation of Obstinacy or ill-nature, I will gratify the
curiosity of your daughter; and may the fortitude with which I have suf-
fered the many afflictions of my past Life, prove to her a useful lesson for
the support of those which may befall her in her own. Laura
LETTER 3rd
LAURA to MARIANNE
As the Daughter of my most intimate freind I think you entitled to that
knowledge of my unhappy story, which your Mother has so often solicited
me to give you.
My Father was a native of Ireland and an inhabitant of Wales; my Mother
was the natural Daughter of a Scotch Peer by an italian Opera-girl— I was
born in Spain and received my Education at a Convent in France.
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When I had reached my eighteenth Year I was recalled by my Par