Cancelled chapters

[juliep]

On September 9th, my JASNA group will be discussing the cancelled chapters.  Most of our members had never heard of them before, and I'm leading the discussion.  I haven't really had much time to think about what I'm going to start with, so I'm wondering if any of you all (the best company!) have any ideas.

I own the Annotated Persuasion, so I'll be going through that and will post again later.  But I would definitely appreciate any ideas as to what we might talk about. 

[Cinthia]

Well, there are always the scenes at P2 which managed to incorporate part of the cancelled chapters. By rewatching if not all the adaptation, at least that part, could spark some discussion, I think.

[juliep]

Agreed. When we had our last meeting, I said that there was a hint in P2 and P3 (ugh) that would be of interest to those who didn't know about the cancelled chapters.

I'll see if I can remember to dig out my copy of the script, and will also see what the annotated edition has to say. There has to be something in that book.

[Cinthia]

Maybe this will come as a very late follow up, but I am also preparing material for a GR at the Spanish group and I found three documents on the cancelled chapters. What Brian Southam wrote about them in his Jane Austen's Literary Manuscripts, the introduction that D.W. Harding wrote for the 1965 Penguin edition of Persuasion and more recently what Kathryn Sutherland also wrote about them in her Jane Austen's Textual Lives: from Aeschylus to Bollywood. I have not searched what has been wrote about the chapters on JASNA's Persuasions, because all those three could be more than enough.

[juliep]

I found an article published by the University of Toronto Press called "Jane Austen as Editor: Letters on Fiction and the Cancelled Chapters of Persuasion." But the meeting on Saturday has been cancelled due to Irma. So who knows when we'll end up discussing it.

Here is the link: english.columbia.edu/files/english/content/ECF.Gemmill.pdf