I continue to work on various projects in the field of modern manuscript studies: George Eliot's fiction manuscripts; an extended study of Jane Austen's unfinished manuscript fiction The Watsons.
I have work in press on Walter Scott
A new project centres on the writings of Rose Macaulay.
My alternative biography of Jane Austen: Jane Austen in 41 Objects was published in March 2025 from Bodleian Library Publishing.
Bibliography; textual criticism; literature 1750-1850.
Professor Sutherland is a member of the Advisory Board for the British Library's 'Discovering Literature' project
Chair of the Advisory Board of the Oxford Edition of Charles Dickens
A trustee of Friends of the Nations' Libraries; and of the British Library Collections Trust
She is Patron of Jane Austen's House Museum, Chawton, Hants
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