An extremely rare handwritten manuscript of an unfinished novel by British author Jane Austen was sold for $1.6 million Thursday by Sotheby’s auction house in London. The unfinished draft of The Watsons is believed to be Austen’s earliest surviving manuscript. It was probably written around 1804, before her first published novel, Sense and Sensibility, appeared. […]
Austen Manuscript Auctioned For $1.6 Million
Posted July 14th, 2011 at 11:20 am (UTC-5)
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