Later Manuscripts

This edition of Jane Austen's surviving manuscripts includes Sanditon, Lady Susan and The Watsons, as well as her poems, prayers and shorter fragments.

Jane Austen (Author), Janet Todd (Edited by), Linda Bree (Edited by)

9781107620407, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 30 May 2013

874 pages
21.6 x 14 x 4.9 cm, 1.09 kg

'… a fine and meticulous edition …' News Letter, The Jane Austen Society

The manuscripts that survive from Jane Austen's maturity offer a unique insight into her life as a creative writer. This volume collects together all the literary manuscripts from Austen's adult years (with the exception of the cancelled chapters of Persuasion, in this edition printed with the finished novel), together with letters discussing the art of fiction, and her record of responses to her novels. Included here are the novella Lady Susan, the novel fragments of The Watsons and Sanditon, poems and charades, and the comic 'Plan of a Novel'. In an appendix are collected other works ascribed to Austen, including the play Sir Charles Grandison and three prayers. The introduction offers a history of the manuscripts and a full account of the current state of scholarship on them, and the texts are accompanied by explanatory notes and contextual information.

Chronology
Introduction
Note on the text
The Fiction: Lady Susan
The Watsons
Sanditon
Poems and Charades: Poems
Charades
Austen on Fiction: To Mrs. Hunter of Norwich
Letters on Fiction
Plan of a Novel
Opinions of Mansfield Park
Opinions of Emma
Appendices: A. Transcription of The Watsons
B. Transcription of Sanditon
C. Sir Charles Grandison
D. Prayers
E. Family poems
F. Attributed poems
Corrections and emendations
Explanatory notes.

Subject Areas: Literary reference works [DSR], Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers [DSK], Literary studies: general [DSB]