Fainting alternately onto a sofa
An article in the Toronto Star discusses Jane Austen’s Juvenilia, the stories that she wrote as a young girl.
McMaster, 69, who will be speaking at the conference, says Austen’s early works reveal “something about her cheekiness, her zest, lots of things you really don’t associate with the six novels (which she considers more controlled and decorous) — a kind of chaotic greed and things that are gratuitous fun.”
“The Beautifull (sic) Cassandra,” a 12-chapter long story where none of the chapters is more than three sentences long, is a good case in point.
In the fourth chapter, Cassandra goes to “a Pastry-cooks where she devoured six ices, refused to pay for them, knocked down the Pastry Cook and walked away.”
The article also is about JASNA’s Toronto region, which is having an event focused on the Juvenilia this Saturday.
