Lady Catherine de Bourgh, who, like Lady Susan, is the daughter of a nobleman, is a troublemaker rather than a villainess. Norris in Mansfield Park is one of the worst villains in fiction-but none of them are dastardly, in a James Bond villain way (‘Ha! Ha! Now you are in my power! ’)-and no one else is an aristocrat. Clay in Persuasion must be quite a schemer really, Mrs. 1 There are bad women in other novels-Lucy Steele in Sense and Sensibility is pretty bad, Mrs. That, even more than its epistolary form, makes it unique among Jane Austen’s completed novels. 2 For Jane Austen’s dismissive attitude to the aristocracy, see, for example, David Spring, ‘Interpre (.)ġ Lady Susan is about the adventures of a wicked aristocrat. 1 For a recent assessment of Lady Susan’s force of personality, see William Galperin, ‘ Lady Susan, In (.).
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