For the first time, Jane Austen's brilliant early manuscripts are available in beautiful facsimile editions.
Praise for the
In Her Own Hand series:
" a unique contribution to the world of Austen publications. Kathryn Sutherland’s engaging and thought-provoking introductions help the reader to share in the fun of many of the Austen family’s jokes while also gaining a greater understanding of the world they lived in. Readers will be entertained and inspired by this experience of Jane Austen’s 'playful apprenticeship in the art of bookmaking.'”
austenprose(dot)com "This beautiful edition places Jane Austen’s three precious notebooks into the hands of the common reader."
Jane Austen Society of North America (JASNA) Jane Austen (1775-1817) is one of the most beloved novelists in the English language. Her novels Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Emma, Mansfield Park, Northanger Abbey, and Persuasion have left readers with a literary legacy hard to match by any author before or since. She lived all her life in England and died at the age of 41, leaving a literary legacy hard to match by any author before or since. Kathryn Sutherland is Professor of Bibliography and Textual Criticism at the University of Oxford. She is the author of Jane Austen's Textual Lives: From Aeschylus to Bollywood and the editor of the Digital Edition of Jane Austen's Fiction Manuscripts.