Home / Series / The Life and Works of Jane Austen / Aired Order / Season 1 / Episode 22

Sanditon and Austen's Unfinished Fiction

As Jane Austen’s health declined near the end of her life, she continued to work on a manuscript that she would never finish: a would-be seventh novel entitled Sanditon, which satirized health fads and introduced new complexities of character into her fiction. Despite only consisting of 11 incomplete chapters, this unfinished work nevertheless shows us a novelist at the height of her powers.

English