Not as good as P&P: Jane Austen mother's verdict on Mansfield Park

British Library to put on display Austen’s notes of what friends, family and correspondents thought of her third novel

Many novelists studiously avoid hearing opinions about their writing, but Jane Austen not only encouraged it, she meticulously compiled them in thorough, sometimes hilarious notes.

Next month the British Library will put on display Austen’s handwritten notes of what friends, family and correspondents thought of her third novel, Mansfield Park.

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