Thursday 14 July 2011

UNIFINISHED JANE AUSTEN NOVEL SELLS FOR £993K


Jane Austen's handwritten manuscript for The Watsons (pictured above), which experts believe was only a quarter completed, has been sold by Sotheby's to the Bodleian Library in Oxford for £993,000.

It is believe to have been started in 1804 but was abandoned after the death of her father the following year; one theory being that the storyline was too autobiographical & too close to home. 

The Watsons was written in a similar style to her other novels and follows the story of four sisters, the daughters of a widowed clergyman.

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