Lady Susan is an epistolary novel written by Jane Austen at the end of the eighteenth century. It tells the story of a dishonest widow who schemes her way into the lives of her relations to achieve upward social mobility. Lady Susan deals with themes of hypocrisy in society, reconciling truth and slander, and the struggle between love and reason.
The English writer Jane Austen (1775-1817) was one of the most important novelists of the 19th century.In her intense concentration on the thoughts and feelings of a limited number of characters, Jane...
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"It is a truth universally acknowledged," wrote Jane Austen in the opening sentence of Pride and Prejudice, "that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife." With this st...
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Jane Austen is one of the few novelists in world literature who is regarded as a "classic" and yet is widely read. As the contemporary novelist Fay Weldon puts it, for generations of students and the ...
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Biography EssayJane Austen stands not only as a novelist central to the Romantic period but as one of the supreme prose fiction writers of all literature written in English. Her many admirers include ...
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Jane Austen
Jane Austen
Jane Austen