Selections from the Juvenilia- Albion and Marina & Mina Laury
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Let’s meet and discuss two short stories.
Albion and Marina - This short, highly dramatic romance was written when Charlotte was 14. It features an intense love triangle, a sudden military departure, and a ghostly psychic premonition that mirrors the supernatural elements she later used in Jane Eyre. (4,100 words)
Mina Laury - Written when Charlotte was 22, Mina Laury represents a massive, sophisticated evolution in her storytelling, serving as the explicit psychological blueprint for the complex dynamics she would later perfect in Jane Eyre. (13,500 words)
Both stories are in the public domain so are available online -
https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/73858/pg73858-images.html
They are also both published in the Oxford World Literature edition of the juvenilia, Tales of Glass Town, Agria, and Gondal -