Lady Susan: An Early Novel in Letters
Aug 2026 · Aeneas Press
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Lady Susan Vernon is newly widowed, entirely charming, and busy arranging a marriage for her daughter that the girl would rather die than make. Austen wrote it at about nineteen, in letters, and never published it — a portrait of a woman who lies as easily as she breathes and is more entertaining than anyone else in the book. It is the coldest thing she ever wrote. Fifty-eight plates of portraits and scenes by painters including Thomas Lawrence and Joshua Reynolds, spanning 1750 to 1850, match the novel's cool appraisal of a society that judged women by the matches they made.
Lady Susan Vernon is newly widowed, entirely charming, and busy arranging a marriage for her daughter that the girl would rather die than make. Austen wrote it at about nineteen, in letters, and never published it — a portrait of a woman who lies as easily as she breathes and is more entertaining...
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Jane Austen (1775–1817) was an English novelist who wrote during the Regency era from her home in Hampshire. She published four novels in her lifetime—Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, and Emma—and left behind Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, and the epistolary Lady Susan, all issued posthumously; her juvenilia include Love and Freindship.
Jane Austen (1775–1817) was an English novelist who wrote during the Regency era from her home in Hampshire. She published four novels in her lifetime—Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, and Emma—and left behind Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, and the epistolary Lady Susan, ...
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