<p><strong>From the age of eleven until she was eighteen Jane Austen wrote her tales in three notebooks.</strong> The notebooks still exist - one in the Bodleian Library; the other two in the British Museum. This is from Jane Austen's childhood and despite their rough nature they offer something of value: not just the insight they give us into Austen's thinking and her mind but there is a certain charm here a thing to value in its own. . . .</p>