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'''Lady Susan''' may be [[Jane Austen]]'s least known completed work.  It is an [[epistolary novel]], written around 1793-4, and is significant both for its genre and for the character of its protagonist, the scheming Lady Susan. It was first published in James Edward Austen-Leigh]'s ''A Memoir of Jane Austen'' in 1870.
'''Lady Susan''' may be [[Jane Austen]]'s least known completed work.  It is an [[epistolary novel]], written around 1793-4, and is significant both for its genre and for the character of its protagonist, the scheming Lady Susan. It was first published in James Edward Austen-Leigh's ''A Memoir of Jane Austen'' in 1870.


While the rest of Austin's heroines are decent and sympathetic characters, Susan is amoral and manipulative.  ''Lady Susan'' is a subtle and clever novel; the protagonist's motivation and her character (or lack thereof) is revealed more in the reactions of the recipients of the letters than by Lady Susan's own words.
While the rest of Austin's heroines are decent and sympathetic characters, Susan is amoral and manipulative.  ''Lady Susan'' is a subtle and clever novel; the protagonist's motivation and her character (or lack thereof) is revealed more in the reactions of the recipients of the letters than by Lady Susan's own words.

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Lady Susan may be Jane Austen's least known completed work. It is an epistolary novel, written around 1793-4, and is significant both for its genre and for the character of its protagonist, the scheming Lady Susan. It was first published in James Edward Austen-Leigh's A Memoir of Jane Austen in 1870.

While the rest of Austin's heroines are decent and sympathetic characters, Susan is amoral and manipulative. Lady Susan is a subtle and clever novel; the protagonist's motivation and her character (or lack thereof) is revealed more in the reactions of the recipients of the letters than by Lady Susan's own words.