I found out about Lady Susan, Jane Austen's epistolary novella, the same way I find out about a lot of things I review on this LJ - via
smartbitches.
Turns out that it was actually the first novel-length work Austen has ever written - and it's unlike anything we tend to expect to her. The protagonist (the eponymous Lady Susan Vernon) is a cheerfully immoral
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