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Jane Austen: a literary genius at work

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OX1 3BG

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A one-day display of Jane Austen’s manuscripts from the Bodleian Library collections showing the newly acquired handwritten manuscript of her unfinished novel The Watsons. Extensively revised and corrected throughout, the manuscript is a testimony of Jane Austen’s efforts to give shape to the earliest ideas as they pour onto paper, as she reviews, revises, deletes and underscores. The Watsons is the very genesis of fiction from one of the Britain’s greatest and best-loved writers. Also included in the display will be Volume the First, a manuscript of Austen’s juvenilia.

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Road Nearest major road is A34. Alternatively A40.

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