The Crown's Emma Corrin reads a 13-year-old Jane Austen's letter 

13 years old? Dear God: Who taught that girl to write! She could make it as an author if she wanted to. I hope we hear more from her. (Ever your humble servant, Mr. Darcy)

Even at 13 she was a wonderful writer, as well as quite cheeky and amusing. I enjoyed this very much.

"May your work be condemned to the pastry cook shop and may you always continue a bachelor and be plagued with a maiden sister to keep house for you." Oh wow...I wish people could throw down more of such classy, witty insults!

This was enjoyable to hear. Miss Austen's sharp, somewhat sarcastic wit is evident in this letter, even at a young age. Austen never missed a chance to send up the sentimental novels and stories of her era, and clearly she started early.

There you have a young lady who really knew her mind and was not afraid to speak it!!

I love her! What a witty, delightful girl she was! I love how she rips the guy's boring Oxford lifestyle and offers to assist him AND curses him to singleness!

I was impressed by Austen's insight regarding the then narrowed horizons of ivory tower literati. That the recipients of her complaint were her older male siblings makes it all the more biting. I wonder if they knew it was Jane?

If I am not mistaken, the Loiterer was written (and/or edited) by Jane Austen’s brothers, who were undergraduates at Oxford, so the letter is a cheeky bit between siblings (if she wrote it, which some scholars debate). In any case, not something she wrote to a stranger, so NO, it is not rude or entitled. It falls very much in line with the humor in her juvenilia (early works pre “the big six” novels-especially something like Plan of a Novel) and in her personal letters, so I would suggest this letter is intended with humor (although the criticism about a lack of a good female character is something she would have legitimately thought about any fiction that did not have a good female character). I understand some people’s comments, given that there was no context, but just so you don’t get the wrong impression . . .

Comforting that all 13 year old girls are practically the same - despite spanning centuries apart.

This letter, if directed at me, would make me feel more shame than a thousand nasty comments on the Internet.

Marianne Dashwood made an early appearance...

I do love this!

Wonderful read of a wonderful letter.

Lovely letter

Brilliant

Absolutely fucking savage! 😂

nice video

Acerbic, rye and witty at merely 13? Where will that young lady go next ?

May ask about the identity of the writer that she talking about and where can i find it?

Please upload Toby Jones next!!

Jane Austen is my favorite author. I love Pride and Prejudice and it's spin-off novel "Wickham's Second Attempt". I really wish that they would make Wickham's Second Attempt into a movie - it has a duel between Wickham and Darcy!

Nice language aside, she was clearly being a 13yo

The quintessential little madam.

WOW! Emma looks gorgeous 😍

please do leave if you can.

This was fun, but she mispronounced several key words. “Perdida” became “ perdrida”, “homilies” became “homelies “ and so on.to read well requires some familiarity with the vocabulary and times of the writer.

HA HA HOW FUNNY AND INSIGHTFUL. THEY DO NOT MAKE 13 YEAR OLD LIKE THAT ANYMORE.

If a 2021 13-year-old wrote it: "So, I'm gonna , like, go ahead and, like, unfriend you, mkay? I read, like, everything - periodicals are, like, super-nice, when I saw yours I was like "Woo-hoo!", but it's like super-dumb... " etc, etc.

Reading it too fast.

Yes, at 13 yo, the female attitude starts.

Goodness she was certainly a bossy boots. I’m not surprised she never married.

so is not in fact a recent thing. sounds like rich little girls were always rude and entitled... sigh