Jane Austen Used Pins to Edit Her Manuscripts: Earlier than the Phrase Processor & White-Out
Earlier than the phrase processor, earlier than White-Out, earlier than Put up-It Notes, there have been straight pins. Or, not less than that’s what Jane Austen used to make edits in one in every of her uncommon manuscripts. In 2011, Oxford’s Bodleian Library acquired the personuscript of Austen’s abandoned novel, The Watsons. In announcing the acquisition,…