In the canon
Lady Susan
- Form
- Form Novel
- Year
- Year 1871
- Pages
- Pages 120
A widow moves in with her brother-in-law and writes two kinds of letters: warm ones to the family, frank ones to a friend about seducing the men and forcing her daughter to marry a rich fool. It falls apart, and she takes the fool herself.
There is exquisite pleasure in subduing an insolent spirit, in making a person predetermined to dislike acknowledge one's superiority.
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