num_pages: 6
description: These three works - one novel unpublished in her lifetime and two unfinished fragments - reveal Jane Austen's development as a great artist.Lady Susan, with its wicked, beautiful, intelligent and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 in letters that takes its tone from the outspoken and robust 18th century.Written later, and probably abandoned after her father's death, The Watsons is a tantalising and highly delightful story whose vitality and optimism centres on the marital prospects of the Watson sisters in a small provincial town.Sanditon, her last work, left unfinished at her death, is set in a seaside town. 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: Clara Brereton, Esther Denham, Mary Parker (Sanditon), Lady Susan Vernon, Tom Parker, Elizabeth Watson (The Watsons), Jane Watson (The Watsons), Lady Denham, Emma Watson (The Watsons), Sir Edward Denham, Charlotte Heywood, Margaret Watson, Frederica Vernon, Sir James Martin, Reginald DeCourcy, Penelope Watson, Sidney Parker, Robert Watson (The Watsons), Mr. Watson, Sam Watson (The Watsons), Alicia Johnson
genres: Fiction, 19th Century, Classics, Regency, British Literature, Adult, Historical Fiction, Romance, Literature, Short Stories
ratings_count: 11400
places: United Kingdom, England
publisher: Isis Audio Books