Rethinking Jane Austen’s Lady Susan: The Case for Her ’failed’ Epistolary Novella

This study of 'Lady Susan' refutes the long-accepted, unchallenged critical view of the novella put forward by Austen scholars that largely deems the work to be unsatisfactory and marginal, through detailed indication of extraordinary artistic achievements of this epistolary text, showing these to be a systematic improvement on Austen's slightly earlier third-person novella.