Lady Susan (version 2)

By Austen, Jane

Book Id: WPLBN0002951313
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Reproduction Date: 2008

Title:	Lady Susan (version 2)
Author:	Austen, Jane
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Language:	English
Subject:	Fiction, Epistolary fiction, Fiction
Collections:	Audio Books Collection, Lady Susan (version 2)
Historic Publication Date:	1871
Publisher:	LibriVox Audio Books


Citation APA MLA Chicago Austen, B. J. (1871). Lady Susan (version 2). Retrieved from http://gutenberg.cc/

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Jane Austen demonstrated her mastery of the epistolary novel genre in Lady Susan, which she wrote in 1795 but never published. 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. The heroine adds additional interest by altering the tone of her own letters based on the recipient of the letter. 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. (Summary from Wikipedia)

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Epistolary fiction, Fiction, Literature