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novel is not as well known as Pride and Prejudice or Sense and Sensibility, for anyone who fortunate enough to have picked up a copy, Lady Susan leaves an indelible
impression. She is completely unlike the prim and proper Austen heroines to follow. Lady Susan is presented as a woman completely lacking in any redeeming characteristics. She
is a woman who exhibits tremendous powers of seduction over the opposite sex and she is so completely self-centered, she will stop at nothing to get what she wants.
In other words, she is the antithesis of the weak and self-sacrificing female protagonist usually featured in nineteenth-century Romantic novels. But there is no hypocrisy about her whatsoever; what
you see (or read) is what you get. Author Francis Warre Cornish observed way back in 1913, "She pretends no good motives, no good feelings; disguises neither resentments, dislikes,
nor ambitions; behaves upon paper, in short, as she would not (it may be supposed) behave in company" (220). As the epistolary novel, which is a series of 41
letters written either by Lady Susan Vernon to her best friend Alicia (Mrs. Charles) Johnson, or her sister-in-law Catherine Vernon to her mother, Lady de Courcy, reveals, this woman is
no shrinking violet (Knuth 215). Lady Susan uses her feminine wiles whenever the mood strikes, and like a conniving cat, she always manages to land on her feet. The
novel describes Lady Susan as being a thirty-something recent widow whose dire financial straits have forced her to live with her brother-in-law Charles and his wife at Churchill, their country
estate (Cornish 221). She appears to be blissfully unconcerned by the fact that she was responsible for bankrupting her late husband (which probably led to his death); she instead
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