Also, one draft calls Willoughby a "self-absorbed douchebag"
So maybe Jane Austen's editor cleaned up her prose. The evidence: "The manuscripts, she [the researcher who studied Austen's handwritten unpublished docs] states, feature blots, crossing outs and "a powerful counter-grammatical way of writing"."
Okay, I'll bite that maybe a "powerful counter-grammatical way of writing" might be evidence that Austen's editor monkeyed with the writing style of her books. But as these are unpublished works, it could also be that Austen was trying a different style that might have ultimately been awesome but she was 1) too scared to try it or 2) she thought it was crap.
And as for these, again UNPUBLISHED, writings having blots and crossing outs...it's called a DRAFT. Probably she would have cleaned it up if she wanted to have it published. Or, you know, the editor that you're fawning over would clean it up. WHICH IS WHAT AN EDITOR DOES.
This rant being said, where do I go to read Jane Austen's unpublished works? I am intrigued.
Okay, I'll bite that maybe a "powerful counter-grammatical way of writing" might be evidence that Austen's editor monkeyed with the writing style of her books. But as these are unpublished works, it could also be that Austen was trying a different style that might have ultimately been awesome but she was 1) too scared to try it or 2) she thought it was crap.
And as for these, again UNPUBLISHED, writings having blots and crossing outs...it's called a DRAFT. Probably she would have cleaned it up if she wanted to have it published. Or, you know, the editor that you're fawning over would clean it up. WHICH IS WHAT AN EDITOR DOES.
This rant being said, where do I go to read Jane Austen's unpublished works? I am intrigued.