Referred to collectively as the “juvenilia”, 27 pieces including novels, tales, odes, plays, and scraps were written from 1787 to 1793, when Jane Austen was between the ages of 11 and 18 years old. Austen herself transcribed these pieces into three volumes. Late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century Austenians emphatically did not share Austen's attachment to her youthful performances. James Edward Austen-Leigh's Memoir of Jane Austen (1869/1870) presented his dear aunt Jane as a prim, disembodied, and unpretending writer of realist novels from a quieter, gentler time. He describes juvenile Austen's work as “preliminary process” i.e. immature practice pieces, in short. In his second edition of his Memoir (1871), Austen-Leigh gives us a bit more information about Austen's early pieces, gallantly averring that they are of a “slight and flimsy texture” and therefore should not be “exposed” to the world.