Even lovers of her six novels often do not know that Jane Austen wrote a whole series of shorter fictional texts between the ages of eleven and seventeen. These remained in the possession of her family for a long time, as they did not deem it appropriate to reveal this part of her development to the public. As a result, Jane's youthful works were largely only made accessible in the 20th century. They are texts filled with exuberant imagination, cheeky humor, and an unrestrained desire to provoke, which Ursula and Christian Grawe have translated completely into German for the first time.