为纪念简·奥斯丁逝世两百周年,大英图书馆搜集并展出了作家早年间使用的三本笔记本。牛津大学英语系教授凯瑟琳·萨瑟兰认为,简的早期作品与后期作品似乎展现了截然不同的风格。早期作品描写了许多性丑闻、女性酗酒和暴力,而后期作品则倾向于刻画压抑且现实的社会。四十年来,这位天才作家的三本笔记本首次在大英图书馆与 In commemoration of the two hundredth anniversary of the death of Jane Austen, the British Library collected and exhibited three notebooks used by writers in their early years. Catherine Sutherland, a professor of English at Oxford University, thinks that Jane’s early and later works seem to show quite different styles. Early works portrayed many sexual scandals, female alcoholism and violence, while later works tended to depict depraved and realistic societies. For the first time in three decades, three notebooks of this talented writer have been with the British Library