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Lady Susan: An Epistolary Novel of Charm, Manipulation, and Social Satire
Paperback
RomanceClassic FictionLiterary Fiction
ISBN13: 9781604597387
Publisher: SMK Books
Published: Jun 15 2009
Pages: 76
Weight: 0.27
Height: 0.18 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Lady Susan is Jane Austen's sharp early epistolary novel of charm, manipulation, marriage strategy, and social performance. Written in letters and centred on one of Austen's most brilliantly unscrupulous heroines, the novel follows Lady Susan Vernon, a beautiful and recently widowed woman who uses wit, flirtation, calculation, and emotional pressure to manage lovers, relatives, reputation, and her daughter's future.
Unlike the more morally balanced heroines of Austen's mature novels, Lady Susan is dangerous because she understands society perfectly and exploits its rules without embarrassment. The result is a compact and unusually acidic work: part comedy of manners, part social satire, part study in female power operating within narrow eighteenth-century constraints. For readers of Jane Austen, classic English fiction, epistolary novels, and Regency-era social comedy, Lady Susan offers a fascinating glimpse of Austen's early brilliance and the darker intelligence behind her later novels.
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