I've been reading a lot of Jane Austen lately, so when I saw her name in the headlines, I was intrigued. Jane Austen is a literary legend and often used in Hollywood, but an author who's been dead for almost 200 years doesn't normally make the headlines of today's news.
Apparently one of Jane Austen's original manuscripts was just sold at auction for almost a million pounds! It had been given an estimate value of only about £200,000, but in the end it sold for over £990,000. (Click here for the BBC News story.)
The manuscript is in Jane Austen's handwriting and is apparently full of her notes.
Wouldn't it be great to be able to have a leaf through these pages and see Austen's own handwriting and editing notes? As a writer myself, I'd love to see Austen's writing process and how the novel evolved. The manuscript is of "The Watsons", which Austen never finished. To read "The Watsons" on-line, click here.
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