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Lesley Castle Letter the Sixth. Lady Lesley to Miss Charlotte Lutterell. Lesley Castle. March 20th. We arrived here my sweet Freind about a fortnight ago, and I already heartily repent that I ever left our charming House in Portman-square for such a dismal old weather-beaten Castle as this. Lesley Castle is an epistolary novel initially featuring a correspondence between two young friends. While Margaret lives in Scotland awaiting news of whether her roue of a father has remarried in London, her friend Charlotte is excessively occupied with things culinary/5(6). Jane Austen plants tongue firmly in cheek in “Lesley Castle,” a series of letters among female friends revealing themselves to be obtusely self-absorbed and catty. Here is one example: “In short, my dear Charlotte, it is my sensibility for the sufferings of so many amiable young Hesperus Classics has published in this slender volume three short writings of Jane Austen from her teenage years/5.

Lesley-Castle is part of Jane Austen's Juvenila Writings. Juvenilia Writings Juvenilia are childhood writings, works produced by an author or an artist in their youth. Three of Jane Austen's notebooks survive containing early short works in a variety of genres (stories, dramatic sketches, verses, moral fragments). This is another parodic-humorous piece from Jane Austen's Juvenilia (like Frederic Elfrida, Jack Alice, or Love and Freindship).From the dates given to the letters, Lesley Castle was probably written in early (when she was 16). It contains some amusing bits, but may be slightly confusing overall, since Jane Austen introduces a number of separate sub-plots and supporting characters. Love and Freindship and other early works by Jane Austen Lesley Castle: An unfinished Novel in Letters. The History of England Messrs Demand and Co—please to pay Jane Austen Spinster the sum of one hundred guineas on account of your Humble Servant. H. T. Austen £ 0. 0.

Lesley Castle by Jane Austen | Audio Book. Lesley Castle (Dramatic Reading) by Jane Austen ( - )Genre(s): Dramatic Readings, Epistolary Fiction, SatireRead by: Michele EatonWillForbis, Kelly S. Lesley Castle by Jane Austen. I've been re-reading a few of Jane Austen's Juvenalia works to gain a bit more inspiration for a couple stories of mine that are still in the planning stages. In reading I found Lesley Castle quite entertaining and especially found some interesting quotes that I couldn't help sharing.:).