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The story is structured around these sisters’ unrelieved misfortunes, as they ‘dispute the woeful pre-eminence’ of their ‘inflictions’ (Recess, 3: 21). Ellinor, who is tricked into marriage to a contemptible man while her beloved marries another, does in fact run mad. The remainder of her short life is characterised by periods of lucidity, exertion and opportunistic transvestism followed by relapses into madness whenever the prospects of her future happiness are blighted (a frequent occurrence).

Situated in one of the most romantic parts of the Vale of Uske’, Laura is ‘beautiful’, mistress of ‘every accomplishment accustomary to my sex’, and possessed of a mind that is ‘the Rendezvous of every good Quality & of every noble sentiment’ (MW, 77–8). ‘Love and Freindship’, the best-known story from Austen’s juvenilia, has evidence of some early literary preoccupations that influenced Austen’s writing throughout her career. Subtitled ‘a novel in a series of letters’, the story is essentially a first-person narration masquerading as an epistolary novel.

Even Cervantes’s concept of the historia, however, is grounded in the literary criticism of his age, as Resina writes: Cervantes made much of the equivocal meaning of historia. The ambiguity allowed him to play off fantasy against verisimilitude, the chief criterion of poetic merit in Alonso López Pinciano’s Philosophía antigua poética (1596). In this matter Pinciano followed the opinion of other humanists. Earlier, Juan de Valdés had written in his Diálogo de la lengua: ‘... those who write lies must write them in such a way that they come close to the truth.

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