Jane Austen's Persuasion Document Folder

Anyone with an ambition to write will have heard this advice: Write about the things you know.

For Jane Austen (1775–1817) this meant confining her narratives to a worldview based around what young women of her time were exposed to: the household sitting room. That said, the goings-on in a Georgian-era home provided ample opportunities for inquisitive writers like Austen to study human character and emotions. And so, despite their seemingly limited source of inspiration, Jane Austen’s novels (like Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, and Emma) continue to be placed among readers’ all-time favourite book lists because of their superb insights into the dynamics of society and human interaction. Persuasion, the novel featured on this cover, is among her lesser-known works but it benefits from the writer’s more mature outlook as it was composed toward the end of her life.

There is comparatively little information about Austen’s life, as her family sanitized the details of her biography after her passing. However, a large number of her literary manuscripts have survived to this day. The handwritten page reproduced on the cover of this folder is a part of the only known manuscript of Persuasion. It comes from a draft of Chapter 11 that was abandoned in favor of the version that eventually went into print. As a reject, this manuscript stayed in the family until 1925, at which point the guardianship went to the British Library.

Features: 

• Can hold up to 40 sheets of A4 paper
• Magnetic closure with 3 pairs of magnets keeps it securely fastened
• Expandable fabric sides
• Interior lining made from kraft paper for an organic feel

Product: Document folder

Materials: 100% recycled binder boards / Threaded stitching and glue / Decorative printed cover paper

Dim: 13" x 9.25" x .25"

Item number: 9781439799512