SOURCE: SMITHSONIANMAGAZINE

Because Jane Austen had no formal education, she became a voracious reader of the books in her father’s library. Nobody knows what became of these texts—with a few exceptions. Now, one of those exceptions could sell for as much as $150,000 at auction.

Bidding is open for Austen’s personal copy of Isaac D’Israeli’s Curiosities of Literature. The book bears Austen’s signature on the title page and has pencil marks highlighting roughly 15 sections of text.

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