Lady Susan, And, The Watsons
Lady Susan, And, The Watsons

Author: Jane Austen

Publisher: Legare Street Press

Published: 2023-07-18

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781019483930

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In this collection of writings by Jane Austen and her nephew James Edward Austen-Leigh, readers are treated to two of Austen's lesser-known works. Lady Susan, a epistolary novel about a widow's charming but unscrupulous attempts to secure a husband for herself and her daughter, offers a glimpse into Austen's wit and biting social commentary. The Watsons, meanwhile, is a unfinished novel that explores the lives of four sisters in a genteel but impoverished family. James Edward Austen-Leigh's memoir of his aunt, which takes up the remainder of the book, adds a personal and heartfelt dimension to readers' understanding of Jane Austen's life and work. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Lady Susan, And, the Watsons
Lady Susan, And, the Watsons

Author: Jane Austen

Publisher:

Published: 2016-07-19

Total Pages: 364

ISBN-13: 9781333073497

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Excerpt from Lady Susan, And, the Watsons: With a Memoir by the Nephew J. E. Austen Leigh I have lately received permission to print the following tale from the author's niece, Lady Knatchbull, of Provender, in Kent, to whom the autograph copy was given. I am not able to as certain when it was composed. Her family have always believed it to be an early production. Perhaps she wrote it as an experiment in conduct ing a story by means of letters. It was not, how ever, her only attempt oi that kind; for Sense and Sensibility was first written in letters; but as she afterwards re-wrote one of these works and never published the other, it is probable that she was not quite satisfied with the result. The tale itself is scarcely one on which a literary reputation could have been founded: but though, like some plants, it may be too slight to stand alone, it may, perhaps, be supported by the strength of her more firmly rooted works. At any rate, it cannot di minish Jane Austen's reputation as a writer; for even if it should be judged unworthy of the pub licity now given to it, the censure must fall on him who has put it forth, not on her who kept it locked up in her desk. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Lady Susan, the Watsons, Sanditon
Lady Susan, the Watsons, Sanditon

Author: Jane Austen

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 2003-07-31

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 0141907908

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Collecting three lesser-known works by one of the nineteenth century's greatest authors, Jane Austen's Lady Susan, The Watsons and Sanditon is edited with an introduction by Margaret Drabble in Penguin Classics. These three short works show Austen experimenting with a variety of different literary styles, from melodrama to satire, and exploring a range of social classes and settings. The early epistolary novel Lady Susan depicts an unscrupulous coquette, toying with the affections of several men. In contrast, The Watsons is a delightful fragment, whose spirited heroine Emma Watson finds her marriage opportunities limited by poverty and pride. Written in the last months of Austen's life, the uncompleted novel Sanditon, set in a newly established seaside resort, offers a glorious cast of hypochondriacs and speculators, and shows an author contemplating a the great social upheavals of the Industrial Revolution with a mixture of scepticism and amusement. Margaret Drabble's introduction examines these three works in the context of Jane Austen's major novels and her life, and discusses the social background of her fiction. This edition features a new chronology. Jane Austen (1775-1817) was extremely modest about her own genius but has become one of English literature's most famous women writers. Austen began writing at a young age, embarking on what is possibly her best-known work, Pride and Prejudice, at the age of 22. She was also the author of Sense and Sensibility, Persuasion, Northanger Abbey and Mansfield Park. If you enjoyed Lady Susan, The Watsons and Sanditon, you may like Charlotte Brontë's Tales of Angria, also available in Penguin Classics. 'In [Sanditon] she exploits her greatest gifts, her management of dialogue and her skill with monologue. The book feels open and modern ... as vigorous and inventive as her earlier work' Carol Shields

Lady Susan, Sanditon and The Watsons
Lady Susan, Sanditon and The Watsons

Author: Jane Austen

Publisher: Courier Dover Publications

Published: 2020-04-15

Total Pages: 163

ISBN-13: 0486846776

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Three of Austen's smaller works, worthy of reading for both pleasure and study: Lady Susan, in which a widow seeks an advantageous second marriage; and the unfinished novels The Watsons and Sandition.

Northanger Abbey, Lady Susan, The Watsons, Sanditon
Northanger Abbey, Lady Susan, The Watsons, Sanditon

Author: Jane Austen

Publisher: OUP Oxford

Published: 2008-04-17

Total Pages: 433

ISBN-13: 019953554X

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Northanger Abbey is about the misadventures of the ingenuous Catherine Morland, whose indefatigable reading of gothic novels sends her imagination into hilarious overdrive. Austen's literary burlesque is tempered with edginess and cirumspection, however, as ordinary life takes a more sinister turn. This edition also includes Austen's other short works and shows her to be as innovative at the start of her career as at its close.