Thus, the character of Lady Susan is developed through many branches as Austen suggests complications of identity and the way in which that identity is based on interaction rather than on solitary constructions of personality.įor further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording.įor more free audiobooks, or to become a volunteer reader, please visit. There is no conclusive evidence for the date of. The heroine adds additional interest by altering the tone of her own letters based on the recipient of the letter. The manuscript of Lady Susan is a fair copy in Austens hand, almost free of corrections or revisions.

Although the primary focus of this short novel is the selfish behavior of Lady Susan as she engages in affairs and searches for suitable husbands for herself and her young daughter, the actual action shares its importance with Austen’s manipulation of her characters' behavior by means of their reactions to the letters that they receive. Austen’s first draft of Sense and Sensibility was called Elinor and Marianne, and it was also an epistolary novel. It’s written in epistolary form (that is, as a series of letters). Susan’s reputation as an accomplished coquette precedes her, and Catherine will not allow her own brother, Reginald, to fall prey to Susan’s amorous games. Lady Susan was her first full novel (although by modern standards it’s a novella).

Jane Austen demonstrated her mastery of the epistolary novel genre in Lady Susan, which she wrote in 1795 but never published. THE LADY SUSAN IS A CUSTOM DESIGNED LUXURY EXPERIENCE THAT WILL CREATE AN UNFORGETTABLE JOURNEY The Lady Susan is a 58ft Leopard catamaran built by the esteemed Robertson and Caine boatbuilding group. Lady Susan has just arrived uninvited at the country home of her brother-in-law, Charles, and his unwelcoming wife, Catherine. LibriVox recording of Lady Susan, by Jane Austen.

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