Abbreviations
JA : Jane Austen
Gilson : David Gilson, A Bibliography of Jane Austen (1982; corrected edn, Winchester: St Paul’s Bibliographies, 1997). Reference to individual items in Gilson’s bibliography is according to their numbered entries (eg., Gilson F 14)
RWC : Robert W. Chapman, editor of Jane Austen’s manuscript works.
Sabor : The Juvenilia, edited by Peter Sabor, The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Jane Austen (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006)
Southam : B. C. Southam, editor of Jane Austen’s manuscript works.
Todd & Bree : Later Manuscripts, edited by Janet Todd and Linda Bree, The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Jane Austen (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008)
Transcription symbols
& : ampersand
∫ : long ‘s’, used in preference to the short ‘s’ in the middle of words or as the first ‘s’ in double ‘s’ (‘∫s’)
pretend to a much better match : strikethrough, denoting words
or characters deleted
: a covering block of dark grey denoting an erased word
: a covering block of light grey denoting a word superimposed upon an erased word.
: quill pen signalling a change of hand