A teenage Austen's comic epistolary burlesque of sentimental fiction, chronicling absurd misadventures and fainting heroines.
Books mentioned in Love and Freindship (5)
Jane Shore by Nicholas Rowe: “One of Edward's Mistresses was Jane Shore, who has had a play written about her, but it is a tragedy and therefore not worth reading.”
The Critic by Richard Brinsley Sheridan: “must refer all those who may wish to be acquainted with the particulars of his life, to Mr Sheridan's play of the Critic.”
Macbeth by William Shakespeare: “The Manager always played Banquo himself, his Wife my Lady Macbeth ... I did the Three Witches.”
Observations on the Highlands of Scotland by William Gilpin: “her curiosity ... had been so much raised by Gilpin's Tour to the Highlands, that she had prevailed on her Father to undertake a Tour to Scotland.”
The Plays of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare: “the King made a long speech, for which I must refer the Reader to Shakespear's Plays.”