“Lost” Austen Novel Fetches a Million

An unpublished novel by beloved English writer Jane Austen has been sold at auction for close to one million pounds. From The Daily Mail:

The handwritten manuscript is the only copy of the story created -- and was owned by one of the author’s descendants.

It was sold at Sotheby’s in London yesterday for £993,250, three times the guide price, to an anonymous bidder, later revealed to be Oxford University’s Bodleian Library.

The full story is here.