Sanditon, Lady Susan, & The History of England: The Juvenilia and Shorter Works of Jane Austen is a rare collection is a must for all Jane-ites, representing what Richard Church regarded as Jane Austen's literary work-basket.
A collection containing some Jane Austen's earliest work - her hilarious brief History of England, illustrated by her favourite sister, which is a worthy forerunner of 1066 & All That, to the unfinished Sanditon, the novel of her maturity on which she was working at her death aged 42. Her realism and biting social commentary have gained her historical importance among scholars and critics.Description for Sanditon, Lady Susan, & The History of England (Macmillan Collector's Library) Hardcover. AUTHOR: Jane Austen (1775 ? 1817) was an English novelist whose works of romantic fiction, set among the landed gentry, earned her a place as one of the most widely read writers in English literature. These novels are here joined by shorter fictions that survive in Austen's manuscripts, including critically acclaimed works like Catharine, 'Love and Friendship', and 'The History of England'. In 'Sanditon', Austen exercises her acute powers of social observation in the setting of a newly fashionable seaside resort. 'The Watsons' explores themes of family relationships, the marriage market, and attitudes to rank, which became the hallmarks of her major novels.
'Lady Susan 'is a wickedly funny epistolary novel about a captivating but unscrupulous widow seeking to snare husbands for her daughter and herself. Her fragmentary juvenilia show Austen developing her own sense of narrative form whilst parodying popular kinds of fiction of her day. This collection brings together Jane Austen's earliest experiments in the art of fiction and novels that she left incomplete at the time of her premature death in 1817. With an Introduction, explanatory notes, and annotated bibliography by Nicholas Seager.
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