The cut-and-paste feature in word-processing programs makes it easy to rearrange text. But in the past, some writers literally cut and pinned their copy. At the University of Oxford’s Bodleian Libraries, you can see the pins Jane Austenused to fasten together parts of pages from her unfinished novel, The Watsons. This is part of a complete episode.
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