Curators launch campaign after acquiring 78-page document that could hold new information about author
There may be gems about Jane Austen’s life and times buried in a memoir handwritten by her older brother – but the hitch is that it is proving difficult to decipher his tricky handwriting.
So museum curators at her old cottage in the Hampshire village of Chawton are asking Austen enthusiasts across the world if they can help transcribe the newly acquired 78-page document.
