Lady Susan
By: Jane Austen
Series: The art of the novella
Publisher: Melville House
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Brooklyn. N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 84
ISBN-13: 9781935554356
Subjects: Fiction; Mothers and daughters; Widows; Mate selection
Description: "I am indeed provoked at the artifice of this unprincipled woman." This high-spirited tale, told through an exchange of letters, i s unique in Jane Austen's small body of work. It is the story of Lady Susan, a brilliant, beautiful and morally reprehensible coquette who delights in making men fall in love with her, deceiving their wives into friendship and even tormenting her own daughter, cruelly bending her to her will. Austen clearly delighted in her wicked heroine--tracing Lady Susan's maneuverings to remarry yet continue on with her lover, and to marry off her young daughter, with great wit, zest, and unfailing panache.
Notes: Epistolary novel written presumably between 1793-1794 and originally published 1871 in Edward Austen-Leigh's A Memoir of Jane Austen.