Juvenile Songs and Lessons: Music Culture in Jane Austen's Teenage Years

Gillian Dooley

Juvenile Songs and Lessons: Music Culture in Jane Austen's Teenage Years

Gillian Dooley

College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences

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Abstract

The stories, poems, and “scraps” Jane Austen wrote in her teenage years are now well known as her juvenilia—crazy, irreverent, transgressive miniatures of a wildly creative mind playing and experimenting with literature. During the same years, Austen was studying music and forming a collection of songs and keyboard pieces that would stay with her throughout her life. The details and dates are uncertain, but sometime after her return from school in 1786, a piano was bought for her, and she seems to have been still having lessons ten years later.

Original language	English
Number of pages	20
Journal	Persuasions: The Jane Austen Journal On-Line
Volume	41
Issue number	1
Publication status	Published - 16 Dec 2020

Keywords

Jane Austen
Music
Juvenilia

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1 Article
1 Film, Digital Media or Visual Output

Jane Austen's Music
Dooley, G. (Curator), 2023
Research output: Non-textual form › Film, Digital Media or Visual Output
Jane's Musical Tastes
Dooley, G., Jan 2022, Jane Austen's Regency World, 115, p. 36-39 4 p.
Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article

1 Invited talk

Juvenile Songs and Lessons: Music culture in Jane Austen's Teenage Years
Dooley, G. (Speaker)
10 Oct 2020
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk

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Juvenile Songs and Lessons: Music Culture in Jane Austen's Teenage Years

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Jane Austen's Music

Jane's Musical Tastes

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Juvenile Songs and Lessons: Music culture in Jane Austen's Teenage Years

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