Pages of an unfinished Jane Austen novel, bought for £1m, will go on display at her Hampshire home later.
One of 11 booklets from The Watsons manuscript is going on show as part of an exhibition at Jane Austen’s House Museum in Chawton.
The rare manuscript was bought in 2011 by Oxford’s Bodleian Libraries.
Apart from two chapters of Persuasion, none of the six published Austen novels survives in manuscript form.
The Watsons was started then abandoned between 1804 and 1805, after the sudden death of Austen’s father George.
The story centres on Emma Watson who was adopted in childhood by a rich uncle and aunt, but has to return to her birth family when her uncles dies and she is left without an inheritance, BBC informs.
