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This charming work is part of her early collection known as the Juvenilia, compiled into three notebooks she referred to as Volume the First, Volume the Second, and Volume the Third. Set against the backdrop of Austens contemporary society, the novelette unfolds through a series of ten letters exchanged among five women of high society in Great Britain. With a delightfully mock-serious tone, Austen humorously critiques themes of self-absorption and jealousy among her peers. 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