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区牧师。奥斯汀没有上过正规学校，但受到较好的家庭教育，主要教材就是父亲的文学藏书。奥斯汀一
家爱读流行小说，多半是庸俗的消遣品。她少女时期的习作就是对这类流行小说的滑稽模仿，这样就形
成了她作品中嘲讽的基调。她20岁左右开始写作，共发表了6部长篇小说。1811年出版的《理智与情感》
是她的处女作，随后又接连发表了《傲慢与偏见》（1813）、《曼斯菲尔德花园》（1814）和《爱玛》
（1815）。《诺桑觉寺》（又名《诺桑觉修道院》）和《劝导》（1818）是在她去世后第二年发表的，
并署上了作者真名。奥斯汀从小在家阅读父亲收藏的古典文学书籍和流行小说，并练习各种文体的写作
。14岁时，她就写成了她的处女作《爱情和友谊》。
奥斯汀终身未婚，家道小康。由于居住在乡村小镇，接触到的是中小地主、牧师等人物以及他们恬静、
舒适的生活环境，因此她的作品里没有重大的社会矛盾。她以 女性特有的细致入微的观察力，真实地描
绘了她周围世界的小天地，尤其是绅士淑女间的婚姻和爱情风波。她的作品格调轻松诙谐，富有喜剧性
冲突，深受读者欢迎。
Love and Friendship is a juvenile story by Jane Austen, dated 1790, when Austen was 14
years old. Written in epistolary form, like her later unpublished novella, Lady Susan, it
is likely one of the tales she wrote for the amusement of her family.
The installments, written as letters from the heroine Laura, to Marianne, the daughter of
her friend, Isabel, "La Comtesse de Feullide," may have come about as nightly readings by
the young Jane in the Austen home. Love and Friendship (the misspelling is one of many in
the story) is clearly a parody of romantic novels Austen read as a child. This is clear
even from the subtitle, "Deceived in Friendship and Betrayed in Love," which totally
undercuts the title.
In form, it resembles a fairy tale as much as anything else, featuring wild coincidences
and turns of fortune, but Austen is determined to lampoon the conventions of romantic
stories, right down to the utter failure of romantic fainting spells, which always turn out
badly for the female characters.
In this story one can see the development of Austen's sharp wit and disdain for romantic
sensibility, so characteristic of her later novels.
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