Frank Austen transcription project underway!
An update on our community engagement project to make the first full transcript of Admiral Sir Francis Austen's unpublished Memoir.
In April we launched a community engagement project to make the first full transcript of Admiral Sir Francis Austen’s unpublished Memoir.
We asked our audiences around the world to work with us to transcribe the manuscript and discover more about Frank Austen’s life and the world in which Jane Austen lived and wrote. Volunteers were invited to transcribe a single page, contributing to a mass engagement activity that will bring together amateur historians, friends of the museum and fans of Jane Austen’s work on a unique project.
We were inundated with responses, receiving 2000 applications from all over the world to transcribe a page within the first 24 hours! It was thrilling to see such enthusiasm to be involved with this exciting project.
We have now allocated all the pages of the manuscript and our global community of transcribers is hard at work, working from high resolution photographs of the original manuscript to accurately copy down each word and punctuation mark, to create a full, accurate transcript.
We will check each page and collate a full transcription. Eventually, the full Memoir will be published here on our website for all to read.
You can find out more about the manuscript here.
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