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The Bodleian Libraries have acquired the only original draft novel manuscript of hers to have survived, it is incomplete and has never been published as a novel. Titled 'The Watsons' by one of Jane Austen's descendents, the manuscriped was sold at auction on 14 July
The last major Austen manuscript to have been in private hands, The Watsons is the most significant Austen item to have come to the market in over twenty years.