However it is a bit too short and a slightly rushed. Overall however I would give it 3.5 stars as it is a light but serious read with Don Juan Lady Susan, as Claire Tomalin compares her to in her Jane Austen: A life biography. It would have been nice to have more development of Lady Susan’s idea of marrying Sir James. The characters like Frederica, for example, are not well developed and I would have liked to see more letters from her as there is only one.Īlso the ending was a bit rushed and not well concluded. She wrote Pride and Pride as Prejudice a year later. However the story is not very well developed as Jane Austen was said to be learning to write at the time and was only 18. I also like the other qualities of narrative technique that she uses as it is written in letters and the use of different narrative voices was very new at the time.
She also has the same shy personality but is slightly older and more sensible and she would never run away. Frederica is much like Fanny Price, the heroine of Mansfield Park, who loves Edmund but is not aware of her love for him and only loves him as a brother although he is her cousin. Reginald is also similar in a way to Edmund Bertram, who is not as naïve as Reginald but still loves a totally suitable woman. I like this novel because it has elements of later novels – Lady Susan is very like the witty coquettish Mary Crawford in Mansfield Park. It is hinted at the end that Reginald will marry Frederica and that she lives with her uncle and his family, therefore escaping her mother’s control. However after some explanation as to what Lady Susan is really like he begins to fall out of love with her and (spoiler alert!) Lady Susan ironically marries Sir James. Frederica soon falls for Reginald, who does not return her feelings as he is so besotted with Lady Susan. They are much kinder to her than Lady Susan but Lady Susan still tries to make her marry Sir James. She is caught and goes to stay with Lady Susan’s brother, whose family adore her.
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