![]() Notably, the eponymous heroine is an older woman who is by turns scheming, selfish, unscrupulous and conducting an unsuitable relationship with a married man. This novel was part of The Classics Club and From Page To Screen challenges.Īlthough a juvenile work that ends rather abruptly as if the author tired of writing it, Lady Susan has the trademark wit and ability to skewer social foibles one associates with later Jane Austen novels. It takes the form of letters between Lady Susan and her friend Mrs Johnson, between Lady Susan’s sister-law, Mrs Vernon, and her mother Lady de Courcy and Mrs Vernon’s brother, Reginald. ![]() Lady Susan is a short epistolary novel thought to have been written in 1794 (when Jane Austen would have been 19) but never submitted for publication by the author and only published in 1871, years after her death. ![]() Recently widowed Lady Susan Vernon seeks an advantageous second marriage for herself and her daughter and is not afraid to use all her guile to achieve it. ![]()
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