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From the desk of Debra E. Marvin: Author of The Longbourn Letters, Rose Servitova’s candid preface in A Completing of the Watsons intrigued me as much as the concept of someone taking on an incomplete Austen manuscript. It’s believed Miss Austen began the story around 1803, but it was no more than a partial manuscript at the... Continue Reading →
From the desk of Laurel Ann Nattress: There is something intriguing to readers and writers about an unfinished work by an author that they admire. Everyone wants closure in their life, and certainly in their fiction! Therefore, I was very excited to learn that there would be a new novel completing Jane Austen’s unfinished fragment... Continue Reading →
From the desk of Jenny Haggerty: Open any of Jane Austen’s six completed novels and you’re guaranteed a moving story told with wit and insight, but what fan doesn’t wish Austen had time to complete more books. That’s why I treasure well done Austen-inspired fiction, so when I discovered Ann Mychal had written Brinshore, her... Continue Reading →
From the desk of Jenny Haggerty: For those who love Jane Austen’s novels, her early death is a tragedy we feel anew each time we contemplate the scant space she takes up on our bookshelves. What Austen fan doesn’t long for more than six completed novels, especially since she left behind several tantalizing story fragments?... Continue Reading →
The Watsons, one of the very few original manuscripts by Jane Austen that still exist has sold at Sotheby's in London today for a whopping ÂŁ993,250 ($1.6m), three times the estimated price! The unfinished manuscript was the last remaining of Austen's work to be owned privately and will now live in splendor at the Bodleian... Continue Reading →
An incredibly rare handwritten manuscript of Jane Austen’s unfinished work The Watsons will be auctioned at Sotheby’s in London on July 14th, 2011. It is valued at ÂŁ200,000 to ÂŁ300,000. The Watsons is a fragment of a novel that Austen began around 1803 when she was residing with her parents and sister Cassandra in Bath.... Continue Reading →
From the desk of Laurel Ann Nattress: I feel like a giddy schoolgirl. Look what arrived on my doorstep today. An advanced reading copy of The Mischief of the Mistletoe, by Lauren Willig! *major goosebumps* I have been a fervent fan of Ms. Willig’s Pink Carnation series since the day it landed on the new... Continue Reading →
From the desk of Laurel Ann Nattress: “One abandoned and the other uncompleted.” The Watsons and Sanditon may be fragments in Jane Austen’s literary canon, but they still deserve due deference. Composed over a decade apart in 1803-4 and 1817, each represents Austen’s desire to continue writing during two challenging times in her life. Written... Continue Reading →
