Jane Austen's Fiction Manuscripts
- Project URL
- No public url at present
- Summary
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Jane Austen's fiction manuscripts are the first significant body of holograph evidence for any British novelist. They represent every stage of her writing career and a variety of physical states: working drafts, fair copies, and handwritten publications for private circulation. The manuscripts were held in a single collection until 1845, when at her sister Cassandra's death they were dispersed. Digitization will enable their virtual reunification and provide the first opportunity to make simultaneous comparison of their different physical and conceptual states; it will facilitate systematic study of Austen's working practices across her career, a remarkably neglected area of scholarship.
- Start date
- March 2006
- Status
- Research project in progress
- Participants
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Table of Participants in the Project, giving name, role, institution and department for each person listed Participant Role of participant Institution Department Professor Kathryn Sutherland Principal Investigator University of Oxford Professor Marilyn Deegan Co-Investigator King's College London Centre for Computing in the Humanities Paul Spence Technical Research Director King's College London Centre for Computing in the Humanities - Funders
- Arts and Humanities Research Council
- Disciplines
- Literary & linguistic studies
