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Lady Susan by Jane Austen

$129.00

Before Elizabeth Bennet played nice, Lady Susan played to win.

A comedy of charm, scandal, and social sabotage.

Lady Susan Vernon — widowed, witty, and entirely too clever for polite society. She flirts for power, manipulates for amusement, and narrates her own misbehavior with exquisite precision.

Through twenty-four letters, Lady Susan unfolds as the ultimate 18th-century gossip chain: a story told by its survivors. We watch as Lady Susan’s schemes entangle her daughter, her lovers, and her unsuspecting friends—until wit becomes weapon, and reputation becomes a game only she knows how to win.

It’s Bridgerton with bite: scandal, strategy, and a heroine who refuses to apologize for wanting what she wants.

You know how most Austen heroines spend 300 pages learning to be better people? Lady Susan spends 24 letters being exactly who she is—and refusing to apologize for it.

She's a widow with no money, a teenage daughter she doesn't understand, and a reputation that follows her like smoke. She flirts for sport. She manipulates for survival. And she narrates her own downfall with the kind of precision that makes you wonder if she's the villain or if the world just couldn't handle a woman who refused to be sorry.

This is Austen's first novel. The one she wrote before she learned to make her heroines likeable. It's funny, it's dark, and it's told entirely through letters—which means you get to read everyone's mail and watch them all lie to each other in real time.

Before Elizabeth Bennet played nice, Lady Susan played to win.

A comedy of charm, scandal, and social sabotage.

Lady Susan Vernon — widowed, witty, and entirely too clever for polite society. She flirts for power, manipulates for amusement, and narrates her own misbehavior with exquisite precision.

Through twenty-four letters, Lady Susan unfolds as the ultimate 18th-century gossip chain: a story told by its survivors. We watch as Lady Susan’s schemes entangle her daughter, her lovers, and her unsuspecting friends—until wit becomes weapon, and reputation becomes a game only she knows how to win.

It’s Bridgerton with bite: scandal, strategy, and a heroine who refuses to apologize for wanting what she wants.

You know how most Austen heroines spend 300 pages learning to be better people? Lady Susan spends 24 letters being exactly who she is—and refusing to apologize for it.

She's a widow with no money, a teenage daughter she doesn't understand, and a reputation that follows her like smoke. She flirts for sport. She manipulates for survival. And she narrates her own downfall with the kind of precision that makes you wonder if she's the villain or if the world just couldn't handle a woman who refused to be sorry.

This is Austen's first novel. The one she wrote before she learned to make her heroines likeable. It's funny, it's dark, and it's told entirely through letters—which means you get to read everyone's mail and watch them all lie to each other in real time.

What You Get

24 letters delivered over one year
Two letters per month, arriving in your mailbox like actual correspondence from 1790.

A complete story arc
Scandal → Strategy → Seduction → Exposure → Ruin. Except the ruin isn't what you expect.

Multiple voices
Lady Susan to her best friend. Her daughter's desperate pleas. The brother who thinks he can save her. The sister-in-law keeping score. Everyone's talking, no one's listening, and the gossip is spectacular.

Gorgeous presentation
Cream stationery. Regency-style script. Occasional ephemera (a burned letter, a pressed flower, a furious note from a wronged wife). Each packet feels like you're opening someone's private correspondence.

~21,000 words total
About the length of a novella, but parceled out so you have time to sit with it. Read one over breakfast. Save one for bad days. Let them accumulate on your desk like proof that paper mail still matters.

Optional digital edition
For travel, or teaching, or when you want to search for that one line you underlined but can't find.

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