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 . Lady Susan, an epistolary novel Probably influenced by fashionable epistolary novels by Samuel Richardson and Dangerous Liaisons ( Les Liaisons dangereuses) by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, Austen’s scathing novella tells the story of a seductive widow whose morals leave much to be desired. The heroine adds additional interest by altering the tone of her own letters based on the recipient of the letter. 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. Jane Austen demonstrated her mastery of the epistolary novel genre in Lady Susan, which she wrote in 1795 but never published. Composed in the epistolary form that was popular at the.
LibriVox recording of Lady Susan, by Jane Austen. Lady Susan is the only full novel written by Jane Austen that was not published in her lifetime.
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