The Watsons

The Watsons

The Watsons is an unfinished novel by Jane Austen. She began writing it circa 1803 and probably abandoned it after her father's death in January 1805. It has five chapters, and is less than 18,000 words long. Mr. Watson is a widowed clergyman with two sons and four daughters. The youngest daughter, Emma, has been brought up by a wealthy aunt and is consequently better educated and more refined than her sisters. But when her aunt contracts a foolish second marriage, Emma is obliged to return to her father's house. There she is chagrined by the crude and reckless husband-hunting of two of her...
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Author:Jane Austen
Genre:Novel, Fiction
Number of editions:14

Author of The Watsons

Jane Austen
Jane Austen
December 16, 1775 - July 18, 1817
Birthplace:Steventon
Education:The Abbey School

Jane Austen was an English novelist whose works of romantic fiction, set among the landed gentry, earned her a place as one of the most widely read writers in English literature. Her realism and biting social commentary has gained her historical importance among scholars and critics. Austen lived...
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The Oxford Illustrated Jane Austen
The Complete Novels
Letters to her sister Cassandra and others
Cc9 Sense and Sensibility Hodder Headline Audiobooks
Sandition, The Watsons, Lady Susan and other miscellanea
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Austenj Jane Austen Boxed Set
Catharine and other writings
novels and letters of Jane Austen
A Study Guide to Jane Austen's Pride and Predjudice
Orgueil et préjugés
Letters
Shorter works
My dear Cassandra
Kloster Northanger. Roman
Sense & sensibility
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Two Histories of England
Great Classic Library - Austen
Indecent Display
Rozwazna i romantyczna
Three evening prayers
Gefühl und Verstand
Pauch Dhiyan
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Penguin Readers Level 4
Minor works
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Sensibilidade e bom senso
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The Illustrated Works of Jane Austen
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Signature Classics
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Collected poems and verse of the Austen family
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Charades &c. written a hundred years ago
Liebe und Freundschaft / Drei Schwestern / Catharine
Essential Classics
Die sechs Romane
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Volume the first
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Bite-size Jane Austen
Duma i uprzedzenie
Sensatez y Sentimientos
Simply Stories Sony Data Discman(Adult's Version):Based on Web;Pride and Prejudice;Farewell My Lovely
The Beautifull Cassandra
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COMP NOVELS VOL1 V891
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Gramercy Classics: Jane Austen
Woman's Hour
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Fragment of a Novel
Love and freindship
A Teacher's Guide to the Signet Classic Edition of Jane Austen's Persuasion
Die Watsons. Ein anonym vollendeter Roman
Later Manuscripts
Persuasion
Plan of a novel according to hints form various quarters
Emma. 1400 Grundwörter
NORHTHANGER ABBEY
Sentido y sensibilidad
Abadia de Northanger, La
Double Classics Pride and Prejudice/Sense and Sensibility
Sir Charles Grandison
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Literary Genres

Novel
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A novel is a book of long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern romance and...
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Fiction

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