Episode 4
Her schemes are unravelling, but Lady Susan is undeterred in her plans to marry off her daughter and resolve her own romantic future.
An opportunity to hear a little known, very early Austen work, performed on the radio for the first time.
A beautiful and scheming widow, seeking a husband for both herself and her shy and awkward daughter, while engaged in an affair with a married man. Who will win the heart of the rich and handsome Reginald De Courcy? And will the truth about Lady Susan ever come out?
These are the questions a teenaged Jane Austen posed in this early epistolary novella, published long after her death - the first of her many wise and witty studies of love and marriage, and the games people play.
Read by Emilia Fox, Lucy Robinson and Theo Fraser Steele
Abridged by Eileen Horne
Producer: Clive Brill
A Pacificus Production for BBC Radio 4.
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| Role | Contributor |
|---|---|
| Reader | Emilia Fox |
| Reader | Lucy Robinson |
| Reader | Theo Fraser Steele |
| Producer | Clive Brill |
| Abridger | Eileen Horne |
| Author | Jane Austen |
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- Thu 26 Sep 201322:45BBC Radio 4
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