A rare Jane Austen manuscript has sold for 993,250 at a London auction, three times more than its estimated price. Auction house Sothebys had originally valued the unfinished novel - entitled The Watsons - at 200,000-300,000. The manuscript, originally owned privately, was purchased by an institution. It is thought Austen wrote the tale, about a young woman who returns home to her fathers household after being brought up by a wealthy aunt, in 1804. The work is particularly important because few of Austens draft works have survived, with the exception of two draft chapters of Persuasion, Lady Susan, and Sanditon. Sothebys specialist Gabriel Heaton said this piece of Austens work is particularly informative because it is very much a working draft. Every page is littered with crossings out, revisions and additional text between some of the lines. Austen published six novels, including Pride and Prejudice and died in 1817 at age 41. BBC