Behind Every Great Woman...
Oxford University English professor Kathryn Sutherland studied 1,100 handwritten pages of unpublished work from [Jane Austen]....(Gifford's the guy who added zombies
Sutherland said letters from Austen's publisher reveal that editor William Gifford was heavily involved in making sense of Austen's sensibility, honing the style of her late novels "Emma" and"Persuasion."Gifford did not edit earlier books such as "Sense and Sensibility" and "Pride and Prejudice," whose inconsistencies have sometimes been blamed on bad printing.
"In fact, the style in these novels is much closer to Austen's manuscript hand," Sutherland said.
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