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Thursday, 18 September 2014 12:11

An Unfinished Manuscript by Jane Austen will Go on View at the Writer's Former Home

Jane Austen's House Museum. Jane Austen's House Museum.

Pages of an unfinished Jane Austen novel, bought for £1m, will go on display at her Hampshire home later.

One of 11 booklets from The Watsons manuscript is going on show as part of an exhibition at Jane Austen's House Museum in Chawton.

The rare manuscript was bought in 2011 by Oxford's Bodleian Libraries.

Apart from two chapters of "Persuasion," none of the six published Austen novels survives in manuscript form.

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