1925-33 Lady Susan, Sanditon, Volume the First

Description

Publishers' Original Binding

Three of the lesser known works of Jane Austen, all of which were unpublished during her lifetime.

'Lady Susan' is an epistolary novel, an early complete work which Austen never published during her lifetime. The novel follows the eponymous Lady Susan Vernon, a beautiful and charming widow who goes to visit her brother-in-law at his country residence.

'Sanditon' was an unfinished novel, left behind by Jane Austen when she died in 1817. There were only 120 pages of this manuscript, but it has been thoroughly analysed in a critical manner over the past couple of hundred years. This copy is titled 'Fragment of a Novel' to the title page, and 'Sanditon' to the spine label, which is the name the novel is now better known by. 

'Volume the First' contains sixteen of Austen's early works, writing in a variety of genres - short stories, verses, moral fragments, and playlets. Austen completed this work when she was eighteen, though she wrote some of the pieces in this volume when she was only eleven.