num_pages: 211
description: Together, these three works - one novel unpublished in her lifetime and two unfinished fragments - reveal Jane Austen's development as a great artist.Lady Susan, with its wicked, beautiful, intelligent and energetic heroine, is a sparkling melodrama which takes its tone from the outspoken and robust eighteen century. Written later, and probably abandoned after her father's death, The Watsons is a tantalizing and highly delightful story whose vitality and optimism centre on the marital prospects of the Watson sisters in a small provincial town. Sanditon, Jane Austen's last fiction, is set in a seaside town and its themes concern the new speculative consumer society and foreshadow the great social upheavals of the Industrial Revolution.
language: English
title: Lady Susan / The Watsons / Sanditon
titlecomplete: Lady Susan / The Watsons / Sanditon
characters: Lady Denham, Sidney Parker, Jane Watson (The Watsons), Lady Susan Vernon, Sir James Martin, Esther Denham, Frederica Vernon, Reginald DeCourcy, Emma Watson (The Watsons), Clara Brereton, Alicia Johnson, Sam Watson (The Watsons), Mr. Watson, Elizabeth Watson (The Watsons), Margaret Watson, Sir Edward Denham, Charlotte Heywood, Mary Parker (Sanditon), Tom Parker, Penelope Watson, Robert Watson (The Watsons)
genres: Classics, British Literature, Adult, Short Stories, Romance, Historical Fiction, Literature, 19th Century, Fiction, Regency
ratings_count: 11400
places: United Kingdom, England
publisher: Penguin Classics