Name: Lady Susan, the Watsons, and Sanditon
ISBN: 9780198835899

Jane Austen

The unfinished fictions collected here are the novels and other writing that Jane Austen did not publish, including works such as Lady Susan, The Watsons, and Sanditon.

Unfinished Fictions and Other Writings

Lady Susan, the Watsons, and Sanditon

Comprising one finished novel, Lady Susan, which was published posthumously, and two unfinished fragments, Sanditon and The Watsons, this collection – full of melodrama and burlesque, and exploring a range of literary styles and social classes – spans the entirety of Jane Austen's writing life. The epistolary novel Lady Susan is the darkly humorous tale of the amatory schemes and machinations of an ambitious and unprincipled coquette. The Watsons is the tale of the refined and well-educated Emma Watson, forced by the second marriage of her aunt to return to the house of her impecunious father and face the marital plots and intrigues of her sisters. Begun in the last few months of Jane Austen's life, Sanditon, set in a fast-growing former fishing village, swiftly becoming a fashionable resort, pokes fun at the inhabitants of the new coastal town, with all their hypochondria, witlessness and self-obsession.

Lady Susan, The Watsons, Sanditon

3.5 ⭐️ I wish she had finished Santidon and The Watsons because they had so much potential but she’s dead now so i can’t exact bully her into writing 🧍🏾‍♀️other than that i really enjoyed reading Lady Susan and how her villain antics had everyone by the necks. I really couldn’t stand her and I loved how it was written in the epistolary style, it was fun to read.

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 - finds her marriage opportunities limited by poverty and pride. Meanwhile SANDITON, set in a seaside resort, offers a glorious cast of hypochondriacs and spectators, treated by Austen with both amusement and scepticism.

Lady Susan, the Watsons, Sanditon

Francesca

Was this as painful as I expected it to be? Yes, yes it was. 
Could I in good conscience live my life knowing there was a single scrap of Jane Austen's writing I had not read? Absolutely not. 
Completed or otherwise, her novels are brilliant, showstopping, incredible, witty etc. etc.

Lady Susan, the Watsons, and Sanditon Unfinished Fictions and Other Writings

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