Jane Austen manuscript sells for £850,000

It is thought Jane Austen wrote the manuscript in 1804.

A rare Jane Austen manuscript has sold for £850,000 at a London auction, three times more than its estimated price.

Auction house Sotheby's 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 father's household after being brought up by a wealthy aunt, in 1804