Later Manuscripts (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521843485)

The manuscripts that survive from Jane Austen's maturity offer a unique insight into her life as a creative writer. This volume collects together, for the first time, 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.

Author: Jane Austen
ISBN-10: 0521843480
ISBN-13: 9780521843485
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 12/11/2008
Pages: 874
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.40lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.60w x 2.00d

Review Citation(s):
London Review of Books 04/30/2009 pg. 17
Choice 06/01/2009
Reference and Research Bk News 05/01/2009 pg. 267