Katie Gemmill, “Jane Austen as Editor: Letters on Fiction and the Canceled Chapters of Persuasion”

As she was writing Persuasion, Austen made unusually extensive changes to the novel’s final chapters, eliminating large portions of text and heavily revising others. In this article, Katie Gemmill examines the manuscript evidence of this revision process to better understand Austen’s writing practice and theories of fiction.

Katie Gemmill, “Jane Austen as Editor: Letters on Fiction and the Canceled Chapters of Persuasion”