Lady Susan.
Comprising one finished novel, Lady Susan, which was published posthumously, and two unfinished fragments, Sanditon and The Watsons, this collection - full of melodrama and burlesque, and exploring a range of literary styles and social classes - spans the entirety of Jane Austen's writing life.
The epistolary novel Lady Susan is the darkly humorous tale of the amatory schemes and machinations of an ambitious and unprincipled coquette. The Watsons is the tale of the refined and well-educated Emma Watson, forced by the second marriage of her aunt to return to the house of her impecunious father and face the marital plots and intrigues of her sisters. Begun in the last few months of Jane Austen's life, Sanditon, set in a fast-growing former fishing village, swiftly becoming a fashionable resort, pokes fun at the inhabitants of the new coastal town, with all their hypochondria, witlessness and self-obsession.
The Watson
The Watsons is an unfinished novel by Jane Austen. She began writing it c. 1803 and probably abandoned it after her father's death in January 1805. It has five chapters, and is less than 18,000 words long.
This fragment of a novel was written by Jane Austen in 1804 and remained untitled and unpublished until her nephew James Edward Austen-Leigh printed it in his A Memoir of Jane Austen in 1871. The title is from him.
Mr Watson is a widowed clergyman with two sons and four daughters. The youngest daughter, Emma, has been brought up by a wealthy aunt and is consequently better educated and more refined than her sisters. But when her aunt contracts a foolish second marriage, Emma is obliged to return to her father's house. There she is chagrined by the crude and reckless husband-hunting of two of her twenty-something sisters.
AUSTEN JANE
Jane Austen nació el 16 de diciembre de 1775 en Steventon, cerca de Basingstoke, la séptima hija del rector de la parroquia. Vivió con su familia en Steventon hasta que se mudaron a Bath cuando su padre se jubiló en 1801. Después de su muerte en 1805, se mudó con su madre; en 1809 se establecieron en Chawton, cerca de Alton, Hampshire. Aquí permaneció, salvo algunas visitas a Londres, hasta que en mayo de 1817 se trasladó a Winchester para estar cerca de su médico. Allí murió el 18 de julio de 1817. Cuando era niña, Jane Austen escribía cuentos, incluidos burlescos de romances populares. Sus obras sólo se publicaron después de mucha revisión, y se publicaron cuatro novelas durante su vida. Se trata de Sentido y sensibilidad 1811 , Orgullo y prejuicio 1813 , Mansfield Park 1814 y Emma 1816 . Otras dos novelas, Northanger Abbey y Persuasion, se publicaron póstumamente en 1818 con una nota biográfica de su hermano, Henry Austen, el primer anuncio formal de su autoría. Persuasión se escribió en una carrera contra la mala salud en 1815-16. También dejó dos composiciones anteriores, una novela epistolar corta, Lady Susan, y una novela inacabada, The Watsons. En el momento de su muerte, estaba trabajando en una nueva novela, Sanditon, de la que se conserva un borrador fragmentario.