October 25, 2010
Jane Austen’s Editor
Oxford University English professor Kathryn Sutherland studied 1,100 handwritten pages of unpublished work from the author of incisive social comedies such as “Pride and Prejudice.” She said Saturday that they contradicted the claim by Austen’s brother Henry that “everything came finished from her pen.”
“In reading the manuscripts, it quickly becomes clear that this delicate precision is missing,” Sutherland said.
Sutherland argues for the importance of Austen’s editor, William Gifford, on the later novels, and that the earlier novels share similarities with the handwritten manuscripts.
The handwritten manuscripts are now online.
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