Love and Other Youthful Writings Edition:Alma Classics Award-winning journalist Dolly Alderton survived

Award-winning journalist Dolly Alderton survived her twenties (just about) and in Everything I Know About Love

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Sir Ernest Shackleton's attempt to traverse the Antarctic was cut short when his ship

But beneath this familiar narrative of ruffs and gowns

Love and Other Youthful Writings Edition:Alma Classics Award-winning journalist Dolly Alderton survivedJane Austen's earliest writing dates from when she was just eleven years, and already shows the hallmarks of her mature work: wit, acute insight into human folly, and a preoccupation with manners, morals and money. But they are also a product of the eighteenth century she grew up in dark, grotesque, often surprisingly bawdy, and a far cry from the polished, sparkling novels of manners for which she became famous. Drunken heroines, babies who bite off