![]() ![]() The plots revolves around an unscrupulous and scheming widow Susan Vernon who “without the charm of youth,” manages to seduce any man who takes her fancy, while plotting to marry off her young daughter for financial gain. Consisting of 41 letters between the characters and a conclusion by the narrator, it was estimated by scholars to have been written when Austen was in her late teens between 1793-94. ![]() First published in 1871 in his biography of his aunt, A Memoir of Jane Austen, the novella is written in the epistolary format popular in Austen’s youth. In 1805, Jane Austen transcribed a fair copy of an untitled manuscript that would later be named Lady Susan by her nephew James Edward Austen-Leigh. ![]()
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