For Wednesday: In-Class Writing Response for Pride and Prejudice: Appendix A, B & C

 

No questions for Wednesday, but we'll be reading the following excerpts from the back of the Pride and Prejudice book:

* Appendix A: From the Juvenilia (works from Jane Austen's teenage notebooks)

* Appendix B: Form Austen's Letters to Her Sister Cassdandra

* Appendix C: Contemporary Periodical Reviews of Pride and Prejudice 

These are relatively short readings, but they'll give us some contemporary context for where Pride and Prejudice came from, and what people thought of it when it was still a brand new work. As you read, think about how pieces of Austen's earlier work and her private letters may have shaped the work we have today, as any creative work (autobiographical or not) is crafted from the raw material of a writer's life and experience.