Professor Kathryn Sutherland

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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