2021: Jane Austen: The Watsons: Initial thoughts

[Elke]

The Watsons is an unfinished piece included in most editions of Jane Austen's other and short writings.
This fragment of a novel was written by Jane Austen about 1803-1805, but was not published until 1871, as part of James Edward Austen-Leigh's Memoir (Jane Austen had left it untitled; the title "The Watsons" was provided by Austen-Leigh). It describes Emma Watson's return, after a long absence, to her family, who are on the lower financial fringes of the "genteel". It is not clear why Jane Austen did not continue this fragment…

More info available here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wat...

[Philina]

Which edition are you reading? I‘m going for the one on LibriVox, but I have no idea on which edition it’s based.

https://librivox.app/book/2666

[Elke]

Hi Philina-
I have not been able to dins any info on different editions so I think it is likely it is all the same? Just a fragment of a novel.

[Ruth]

I started this yesterday, after having read
it a few years ago. Compared to Jane Austen's
other novels, this one is rather serious.

[Heather]

Interesting that she would choose a heroine with the name of Emma two times. This surprises me!