Description: For the first time, Jane Austen's brilliant early manuscripts are available in beautiful facsimile editions.
Brief description: Jane Austen (1775--1817) is one of the most beloved novelists in the English language. Her novels Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Emma, Mansfield Park, Northanger Abbey, and Persuasion have left readers with a literary legacy hard to match by any author before or since.
Review Quotes: The three-volume set, In Her Own Hand, gives Austen fans the opportunity to read Jane's handwriting in facsimile pages that match the size of the original notebooks, the color of the paper, and the brown-black iron gall ink that Austen used. Inkblots, smudges, and revisions pepper the pages, giving the reader a glimpse into Austen's early creative process. When faced with deciphering a difficult word or phrase, text transcriptions by Austen scholar Robert W. Chapman provide a handy reference. Each volume contains an introduction by Professor Kathryn Sutherland that places the writings in context and highlights important aspects of the stories and sketches, such as their chronology and how they relate to later Austen works.--AustenProse.com