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Dall’autrice simbolo dell’arguzia femminile e del romanticismo ragionevole, una storia di amori, disavventure e svenimenti
Avendo raggiunto i cinquantacinque anni, un’età che dovrebbe porla al riparo dal rischio di rivivere sventurate peripezie come quelle accadutele in gioventù, Laura si decide a raccontare l’intricata storia della sua vita in una serie di lettere indirizzate alla giovane Marianne – la figlia della sua più cara amica, che si augura così di renderla edotta e accorta sulle innumerevoli, incredibili disavventure che possono capitare nella vita di una giovane fanciulla.
Nipote naturale di un Pari e figlia di un irlandese, dopo aver ricevuto l’appropriata istruzione in un convento in Francia, a diciotto anni Laura torna a vivere presso la famiglia, in Galles. È giovane, bella, aggraziata e di buone maniere – come si descrive lei stessa –, e possiede tutte le virtù e le abilità che si richiedono al gentil sesso, compresa la debita eccessiva emotività. La vedremo infatti svenire puntualmente, nel corso degli sfortunati eventi della sua vita: un susseguirsi di matrimoni lampo, viaggi, nuove conoscenze, separazioni forzate e disavventure più o meno incredibili, un affastellarsi di colpi di scena e drammi familiari che deridono i cliché della narrativa svenevole e romantica, rivelando nella giovanissima autrice uno sguardo incredibilmente lucido e ironico sulle intricate trame sociali e sulla condizione femminile dell’epoca.
Scritto quando Jane Austen aveva solo quattordici anni, questo racconto epistolare è una sottile satira sulla frivola e beneducata società dell’epoca. Le intricate vicende d’amore e d’amicizia, raccontate qui con esuberanza giovanile e spirito acuto, confermano il talento emergente della giovane e brillante scrittrice che ci regalerà capolavori indimenticabili come Pride and Prejudice.
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Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9788855055246 |
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Publisher: | Vallardi |
Publication date: | 03/04/2021 |
Sold by: | GeMS |
Format: | eBook |
Pages: | 128 |
File size: | 1 MB |
Language: | Italian |
About the Author
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nacque a Steventon (Hampshire) nel 1775. Condusse una vita tranquilla, tra gli affetti familiari, a Bath e poi a Chawton, sempre nell’Hampshire. Si spense nel 1817 a Winchester. Di Jane Austen la Newton Compton ha pubblicato Mansfield Park, Persuasione, Orgoglio e pregiudizio, L’abbazia di Northanger, Emma, Lady Susan – I Watson – Sanditon, Ragione e sentimento e il volume unico Tutti i romanzi.
Date of Birth:
December 16, 1775Date of Death:
July 18, 1817Place of Birth:
Village of Steventon in Hampshire, EnglandPlace of Death:
Winchester, Hampshire, EnglandEducation:
Taught at home by her fatherRead an Excerpt
"Deceived in Freindship and Betrayed in Love."
Letter the First From Isabel to Laura
How often, in answer to my repeated intreaties that you would give my Daughter a regular detail of the Misfortunes and Adventures of your Life, have you said "No, my freind never will I comply with your request till I may be no longer in Danger of again experiencing such dreadful ones."
Surely that time is now at hand. You are this day 55. If a woman may ever be said to be in safety from the determined Perseverance of disagreeable Lovers and the cruel Persecutions of obstinate Fathers, surely it must be at such a time of Life.
Isabel
Letter 2nd Laura to Isabel
Altho' I cannot agree with you in supposing that I shall never again be exposed to Misfortunes as unmerited as those I have already experienced, yet to avoid the imputation of Obstinacy or ill-nature, I will gratify the curiosity of your daughter; and may the fortitude with which I have suffered the many afflictions of my past Life, prove to her a useful lesson for the support of those which may befall her in her own.
Laura
Letter 3rd Laura to Marianne
As the Daughter of my most intimate freind I think you entitled to that knowledge of my unhappy story, which your Mother has so often solicited me to give you.
My Father was a native of Ireland and an inhabitant of Wales; my Mother was the natural Daughter of a Scotch Peer by an italian Opera-girl--I was born in Spain and received my Education at a Convent in France.
When I had reached my eighteenth Year I was recalled by my Parents to my paternal roof in Wales. Our mansion was situated in oneof the most romantic parts of the Vale of Uske. Tho' my Charms are now considerably softened and somewhat impaired by the Misfortunes I have undergone, I was once beautiful. But lovely as I was the Graces of my Person were the least of my Perfections. Of every accomplishment accustomary to my sex, I was Mistress. When in the Convent, my progress had always exceeded my instructions, my Acquirements had been wonderfull for my age, and I had shortly surpassed my Masters.
In my Mind, every Virtue that could adorn it was centered; it was the Rendez-vous of every good Quality and of every noble sentiment.
A sensibility too tremblingly alive to every affliction of my Freinds, my Acquaintance and particularly to every affliction of my own, was my only fault, if a fault it could be called. Alas! how altered now! Tho' indeed my own Misfortunes do not make less impression on me than they ever did, yet now I never feel for those of an other. My accomplishments too, begin to fade--I can neither sing so well nor Dance so gracefully as I once did--and I have entirely forgot the Minuet dela Cour
Adeiu.
Laura.
Table of Contents
Foreword | vii | |
Love and Friendship | 1 | |
The Three Sisters | 41 | |
A Collection of Letters | 59 | |
Notes | 85 | |
Biographical note | 87 |