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1. Collected poems and verse of the Austen family

   Austen, Jane, 1775-1817

   Manchester [England] : Carcanet Press in association with the Jane Austen Society, 1996.

   This volume of verse by Jane Austen and her family contains all the known poems by Jane herself and a selection of work by her sister Cassandra, four of her brothers, her uncle James, her nieces Anna and Fanny, and her nephew James Edward.

2. Later manuscripts

   Austen, Jane, 1775-1817

   Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.

   The manuscripts that survive from Jane Austen's maturity offer a unique insight into her life as a creative writer. This volume collects together all the literary manuscripts from Austen's adult years (with the exception of the cancelled chapters of Persuasion, in this edition printed with the finished novel), together with letters discussing the art of fiction, and her record of responses to her novels. Included here are the novella Lady Susan, the novel fragments of The Watsons and Sanditon, poems and charades, and the comic 'Plan of a Novel'. In an appendix are collected other works ascribed to Austen, including the play Sir Charles Grandison and three prayers. The introduction offers a history of the manuscripts and a full account of the current state of scholarship on them, and the texts are accompanied by explanatory notes and contextual information.

3. Volume the second by Jane Austen : in her own hand

   Austen, Jane, 1775-1817

   First edition. - New York : Abbeville Press Publishers, 2014.

   "For the first time, all three volumes of Jane Austen's brilliant early manuscripts are available in beautiful facsimile editions. Fan fiction from the eighteenth century-Jane Austen's stories are as fresh and fun today as they were when she wrote them. Forever immortalized as the author of Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen actually produced her first "books" as a teenager. Taking their names from the inscriptions on their covers-Volume the First, Volume the Second, and Volume the Third-these brilliant little collections include the stories, playlets, verses, and moral fragments she wrote likely from the ages of twelve to eighteen. As a young author, Jane Austen delighted in language, employing it with great humor and surprising skill. She was adept at parodying the popular stories of her day and entertained her readers with outrageous plotlines and characters. Kathryn Sutherland places Austen's earliest works in context and explains how she mimicked even the style and manner in which this contemporary popular fiction was presented and arranged on the page. None of her six famous novels survives in complete manuscript form. This is a unique opportunity to own likenesses of Jane Austen's notebooks as originally written-in her own hand. Volume the Second, housed at the British Library, contains Austen's famous "History of England," illustrated with watercolor portraits by her sister Cassandra, as well as "Love and Friendship," "Lesley Castle," and several letters and fragments she calls "scraps". This notebook was compiled between June 1790 and June 1793, from ages fourteen to seventeen."--"Volume the Second is one of three notebooks written by Jane Austen in her teens. Volume the Second includes 3 stories and several letters and fragments she calls "scraps," all written in her own hand. An introduction by Kathryn Sutherland and transcription are included"--

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