Anna, 7th Duchess of Bedford possessed the beauty and hauteur of Lady Susan
If six Jane Austen novels have left you craving for more of her fine writing, and you have not yet read Lady Susan, perhaps now is the right time to read this unusual novel. Epistolary in form, the letters between Mrs. Vernon and her mother, and Lady Susan and her friend, Mrs. Johnson, reveal a calculating woman who will use her daughter and fool around with her friend’s husband in order to get what she wants. Early on the reader learns what an unnatural and unloving a mother Lady Susan is to her daughter, Frederica. Not once does the reader feel sympathy for this anti heroine. Read my review of the novel in this link, Lady Susan, A Vicious Jewel.
- Read it in Classic Reader
- Naxos audio books offers an audio book for purchase , and which is for sale just now. (you can download it for free at this Librivox link).
- And order the Oxford World Classics book here.
