![]() ![]() The smaller part was later acquired by the Morgan Library in 1925 and the remaining larger portion went through various hands until it was bought by the Bodleian in 2011. ![]() On Jane Austen's death the manuscript was inherited by her sister Cassandra, and then passed to other family relations until it was divided up in 1915. The original manuscript covered eighty pages, now divided between the Morgan Library & Museum, New York, and the Bodleian Library, Oxford. The fragment was given the title of The Watsons and published in 1871 by the novelist's nephew, James Edward Austen-Leigh (1798–1874), in the revised and augmented edition of his A Memoir of Jane Austen. It had no formal chapter divisions and was approximately 7,500 words long. Jane Austen began work on an untitled novel about 1803, while she was living in Bath, and probably abandoned it after her father's death in January 1805. Further completions and adaptations of the story have continued to the present day. The manuscript fragment itself was published in 1871. ![]() A continuation by Austen's niece was published in 1850. There have been a number of arguments advanced as to why she did not complete it, and other authors have since attempted the task. The Watsons is an abandoned novel by Jane Austen, probably begun about 1803. The description of the ball in Jane Austen's manuscript ![]()
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