Childhood Writings Easter26 Henry reflects warmly on a

Henry reflects warmly on a different era which was full of great fun and adventure

Poetry and prose to encourage us to grow

rockets and probes

the wise teacher you always wanted

sex and murder

Childhood Writings Easter26 Henry reflects warmly on aIn her earliest writings, a precocious, alarmingly assured Jane Austen views the adult world with wide, clear eyes, cheekily amused at the emotions, pomposity, intrigues and bustle of family and friends. Composed between the ages of eleven and seventeen, they reveal a child's excitement in language and its imaginative possibilities. Most pieces are ebullient and anarchic; many are surreal, displaying gluttony, drunkenness, matricide, theft and excess,