Lady Susan is a short epistolary novel by Jane Austen, perhaps written in 1794 but not distributed until 1871. This early complete work, which the creator never submitted for distribution, depicts the plans of the title character. Lady Susan Vernon, a lovely and enchanting ongoing widow, visits her brother-in-law (late spouse's sibling) and sister-in-law, Charles and Catherine Vernon, with minimal notification ahead of time at Churchill, their nation home. Catherine is not even close to satisfied, as Lady Susan had attempted to forestall her union with Charles and her undesirable visitor has been portrayed to her as "the most achieved flirt in England". Among Lady Susan's victories is the hitched Mr. Manwaring. Catherine's sibling Reginald shows up seven days after the fact, and he does not withstand Catherine's solid alerts about Lady Susan's personality, and soon, he is captivated by her. Lady Susan plays with the young man's warm gestures for her entertainment and later because she sees it, makes her sister-in-law uncomfortable. Her friend, Mrs. Johnson, to whom she composes now and again, suggests she wed the truly qualified Reginald, yet Lady Susan believes him to be incredibly substandard compared to Manwaring. Frederica, Lady Susan's 16-year-old girl, attempts to take off from school when she learns of her mom's arrangement to wed her off to a well however vapid youngster she hates. She additionally turns into a visitor at Churchill. Catherine comes to like her - her personality is not like her mom's - and as time passes by, recognizes Frederica's developing connection to the careless Reginald. Afterward, Sir James Martin, Frederica's undesirable admirer, appears excluded, causing her a deep sense of pain and her mom's vexation. At the point when Frederica asks Reginald for help out of franticness (having been prohibited by Lady Susan to go to Charles and Catherine), this causes an impermanent break between Reginald and Lady Susan, however the last option before long fixes the burst. Lady Susan chooses to get back to London and wed her little girl off to Sir James. Reginald follows, still beguiled by her charms and purpose of getting married to her, yet he experiences Mrs. Manwaring at the home of Mr. Johnson and lastly learns how Lady Susan is an actual person. Lady Susan winds up wedding Sir James herself, and permits Frederica to live with Charles and Catherine at Churchill, where Reginald De Courcy "could be talked, complimented, and finessed into a fondness for her."
Fue una novelista británica que vivió durante la época georgiana. Nació en la rectoría de Steventon (Hampshire). Su familia pertenecía a la gentry británica (nobleza rural o burguesía agraria), contexto del que no salió y en el que sitúa todas sus obras, siempre en torno al matrimonio de su protagonista.
Ha sido llevada al cine en numerosas ocasiones, algunas veces reproducidas de forma fiel, como el clásico Más fuerte que el orgullo de 1940 dirigido por Robert Z. Leonard y protagonizada por Greer Garson y Laurence Olivier y en otras haciendo adaptaciones a la época actual, como es el caso de Clueless, adaptación libre de Emma. Otras versiones son la de Sentido y sensibilidad, de 1995; Mansfield Park, de 2000, y las de Orgullo y prejuicio en 2004 (dirigida por Gurinder Chadha) y en 2005 (dirigida por Joe Wright). Sin embargo, la versión más fiel y perfecta que hasta ahora se ha hecho del libro de Orgullo y prejuicio es la serie que presentó la BBC protagonizada por Colin Firth y Jennifer Ehle. El interés que la obra de Jane Austen sigue despertando hoy en día muestra la vigencia de su pensamiento y la influencia que ha tenido en la literatura posterior. Su vida también ha sido llevada al cine con la película Becoming Jane (2007).
