Rare Jane Austen Manuscript Auctions for $1.6 Million
Another Jane Austen manuscript is on the loose. Does that mean we’ll see more of her delightful spelling mistakes? An Oxford University academic recently discovered that Jane Austen, the English novelist that launched a thousand BBC costume dramas, was in fact an “eccentric” speller and grammarian. (You write “tomatoes,” she writes “tomatas.”) Now that Sotheby’s
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Rare Jane Austen Manuscript Auctions for $1.6 Million
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