About the Author: Jane Austen
Jane Austen was an English novelist whose works of romantic fiction, set among the landed gentry, earned her a place as one of the most widely read writers in English literature, her realism and biting social commentary cementing her historical importance among scholars and critics.
Austen lived her entire life as part of a close-knit family located on the lower fringes of the English landed gentry. She was educated primarily by her father and older brothers as well as through her own reading. The steadfast support of her family was critical to her development as a professional writer. Her artistic apprenticeship lasted from her teenage years until she was about 35 years old. During this period, she experimented with various literary forms, including the epistolary novel which she tried then abandoned, and wrote and extensively revised three major novels and began a fourth. From 1811 until 1816, with the release of Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814) and Emma (1815), she achieved success as a published writer. She wrote two additional novels, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion, both published posthumously in 1818, and began a third, which was eventually titled Sanditon, but died before completing it.
Austen's works critique the novels of sensibility of the second half of the 18th century and are part of the transition to 19th-century realism. Her plots, though fundamentally comic, highlight the dependence of women on marriage to secure social standing and economic security. Her work brought her little personal fame and only a few positive reviews during her lifetime, but the publication in 1869 of her nephew's A Memoir of Jane Austen introduced her to a wider public, and by the 1940s she had become widely accepted in academia as a great English writer. The second half of the 20th century saw a proliferation of Austen scholarship and the emergence of a Janeite fan culture.
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Jane Austen
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Paperback, Published in Jul 2016 by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN10: 1535094117 | ISBN13: 9781535094115
Page count: 84
A Beautiful, Different Kind of Novella From Jane Austen
Imagine a Jane Austen heroine who is not a young virgin, but rather a recent widow in her thirties, in the midst of an affair with a married man.
Lady Susan Vernon is 35, although she looks much younger, is exceedingly pretty, gentle, with great manners, well spoken, intelligent - the perfect woman!
She shows zero conscience and is determined to alter her situation to give her the most benefit with little care about the feelings of those around her and disregarding anything but her own selfish goals.
She is allowed to stay with her brother-in-law Charles Vernon and his wife Catherine in their family home.
The Vernon's are noted for their generosity. Lady Susan turns on the charm, which no man can resist, but it's different with women, they can see through the outrageous lies, Catherine Vernon grows to dislike her intensely, and feels sorry for her distressed niece, Frederica, the daughter who has been deposited in a cheap boarding school.
Susan is always plotting in this epistolary novella and everyone's writing letters to their confidants, friend or relative, revealing their true feelings, as in a polite society it is the only way.
The novel also focuses on Frederica, Susan's timid 16-year old daughter. Frederica, who is terrorized by her mother, as Susan tries to marry her off to the wealthy, yet fatuous Sir James Martin against her wishes.
Furthermore, Susan's skills in manipulation are confirmed when Catherine's younger brother, Reginald, arrives to meet the notoriously scandalous woman, whose name is attached to many raffish rumors. However, having a way with words, Susan effortlessly manipulates and twists the disreputable gossip to her favor and even has the naive man converted to the position of advocate.
Her true nature is revealed through her correspondence with her friend Alicia Johnson, to whom she reveals all her schemes, contrivances, and the true depth of her unscrupulous nature.
The much too short novella has one of the best female villains in the history of literature.
Unlike Austen's most notable female characters, who are typically guided by principled objectives, Lady Susan is in contrast guided simply by her egocentric ways. An exciting view of Austen's early attempts to write in the epistolary format, Lady Susan presents a melodramatic piece full of details, descriptions, provocative characters, and a well-deserved taste of one's own medicine.
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