Turkey makes an appearance in more than one of Jane Austen’s completed novels—and, it turns out, in one of the unfinished ones, as well. Given the fraught nature of Thanksgiving guest lists, perhaps it’s appropriate that this passage from The Watsons , the novel Austen abandoned around 1805, is also the tale of a guest from hell: Jane Watson, the sister-in-law of heroine Emma Watson. Like Emma ’s Mrs. Elton, Jane Watson is a pretentious social climber masquerading, hilario
