MS Eng. e. 3764
© Jane Austen’s Fiction Manuscripts: A Digital Edition (2010) Order image
MS Eng. e. 3764
© Jane Austen’s Fiction Manuscripts: A Digital Edition (2010) Order image
MS Eng. e. 3764
© Jane Austen’s Fiction Manuscripts: A Digital Edition (2010) Order image
MS Eng. e. 3764
© Jane Austen’s Fiction Manuscripts: A Digital Edition (2010) Order image
MS Eng. e. 3764
© Jane Austen’s Fiction Manuscripts: A Digital Edition (2010) Order image
MS Eng. e. 3764
© Jane Austen’s Fiction Manuscripts: A Digital Edition (2010) Order image
Jane Austen, The Watsons
An introduction to Jane Austen's unfinished novel, The Watsons, by Prof Kathryn Sutherland, Professor of Bibliography and Textual Criticism, University of Oxford.
Comments
What makes this a treasure?
it's a treasure because you can see her writing process and by doing so perhaps peer into her brilliant mind
Posted by Julianne Beatty
On 27/10/2012
Of course it is a treasure. Jane Austen is who most of us aspire to equal!
Posted by Victoria Chance
On 08/12/2011
I saw one of the two Watsons' manuscript at Morgan Library, and this is a wonderful opportunity to see the other.
Posted by Giuseppe Ierolli
On 30/09/2011
Very well known British poet whose wonderful combination of illustrations and words mean they speak to all from children to adults through the ages.
Posted by Catherine Leonard
On 21/09/2011
The manuscript of The Watsons is a treasure because Jane Austen is one of our greatest literary figures. After Shakespeare she is probably England’s greatest writer. We have no manuscript remains for Shakespeare but here we have Jane Austen’s own hand. A manuscript is like an author’s DNA or fingerprint; it gives us precious clues to how she worked, how her imagination worked, how she evolved her scenes and characters.
Posted by Prof. Kathryn Sutherland
On 05/09/2011