BIB_ID
81563
Accession number
MA 1034.4
Creator
Austen, Jane, 1775-1817.
Display Date
[1816-1817].
Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1925.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 7.4 x 3.8 cm
Notes
High reserve.
Part of a collection that includes manuscripts, letters, and notes in Jane Austen's autograph. The collection also includes letters addressed to Austen by James Stanier Clarke and a steel engraving of Austen. Items in the collection are described in 12 individual records (MA 1034.1-12).
Formely catalogued as a Jane Austen autograph. Park Honan, Kathryn Sutherland, and others have assigned it to Austen's sister Cassandra (who had similar handwriting) instead, in part because of the reference to the title "Persuasion." (This note added 2019.)
Part of a collection that includes manuscripts, letters, and notes in Jane Austen's autograph. The collection also includes letters addressed to Austen by James Stanier Clarke and a steel engraving of Austen. Items in the collection are described in 12 individual records (MA 1034.1-12).
Formely catalogued as a Jane Austen autograph. Park Honan, Kathryn Sutherland, and others have assigned it to Austen's sister Cassandra (who had similar handwriting) instead, in part because of the reference to the title "Persuasion." (This note added 2019.)
Provenance
Cassandra Austen; by descent to her niece, Cassandra Esten Austen; by descent to her five nieces, Jane, Emma Florence, Frances Cecilia, Edith, and Blanche Frederica Austen; offered for sale by Jane, Emma Florence, and Blanche Frederica Austen through R.W. Chapman in 1925; purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1925.
Summary
Concerning the dates of composition for three of Jane Austen's novels, Mansfield Park (Feb. 1811-June 1813), Persuasion (8 Aug. 1815-6 Aug. 1816), and Emma (21 Jan. 1814-29 Mar. 1815).
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