On Saturday, June 3, we will discuss Teenage Writing by Jane Austen, Katherine Sutherland and Freya Johnston, editors, via Zoom at 2 p.m. Hawaii Standard Time. In these stories, written “to be shared and admired by a named audience of family and friends … devices and themes which appear subtly in Austen’s later fiction run riot openly and exuberantly across the teenage page. Drunkenness, brawling, sexual misbehavior, theft, and even murder prevail. It is as if Lydia Bennett is the narrator.”

Email JASNAHawaiiNei@gmail.com to receive the Zoom link.
The book is available from
• Jane Austen Books, $12 plus small shipping charge
• Oxford University Press, $12.95, audio guide and interviews available
• Barnes & Noble, $12.95
• Amazon $12.95 (also available in e-reader and used versions)