{"product_id":"lady-susan-plays-the-game-paperback","title":"Lady Susan Plays the Game - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJanet Todd\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA must-read for any devotee of Jane Austen, Janet Todd's 'naughty-Austen' reimagining of the epistolary novel \u003ci\u003eLady Susan\u003c\/i\u003e will capture your literary imagination and get your heart racing. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAusten's only anti-heroine, Lady Susan, is a beautiful, charming widow who has found herself, after the death of her husband, in a position of financial instability and saddled with an unmarried, clumsy and over-sensitive daughter. Faced with the unpalatable prospect of having to spend her widowed life in the countryside, Lady Susan embarks on a serious of manipulative games to ensure she can stay in town with her first passion - the card tables. Scandal inevitably ensues as she negotiates the politics of her late husband's family, the identity of a mysterious benefactor and a passionate affair with a married man. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAccurate and true to Jane Austen's style, as befits Todd's position as a leading Austen scholar, this second coming of Lady Susan is as shocking, manipulative and hilarious as when Jane Austen first imagined her.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJanet Todd\u003c\/b\u003e is an internationally renowned scholar of early women writers. She has edited the complete works of England's first professional woman writer, Aphra Behn, and the Enlightenment feminist Mary Wollstonecraft, as well as novels by Charlotte Smith, Mary Shelley and Eliza Fenwick and memoirs of the confidence trickster Mary Carleton. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJanet Todd is the general editor of the 9-volume \u003ci\u003eCambridge Edition of the Works of Jane Austen \u003c\/i\u003eand editor of\u003ci\u003eJane Austen in Context\u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003eCambridge Companion to Pride and Prejudice\u003c\/i\u003e. Among her critical works are\u003ci\u003eWomen's Friendship in Literature\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Sign of Angellica: Women, Writing and Fiction 1660-1800\u003c\/i\u003e and the\u003ci\u003eCambridge Introduction to Jane Austen\u003c\/i\u003e. She has written four biographies: of Aphra Behn and three linked women, Mary Wollstonecraft, her daughter, and her aristocratic Irish pupils. Lady Susan Plays the Game is her first foray into fiction. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the 1970s Janet Todd taught in the USA, during which time she began the first journal devoted to women's writing. Back in the UK in the 1990s she co-founded the journal \u003ci\u003eWomen's Writing\u003c\/i\u003e. Janet has had a peripatetic and busy life, working at universities in Ghana, the US, and Puerto Rico, as well as England and Scotland. She is now an emeritus professor at the University of Aberdeen and lives in Cambridge.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 388\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 28, 2016\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51775806243104,"sku":"9781448216604","price":20.16,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/0c4e8b860087fde0e6b48897a0e7d111.webp?v=1780467342","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/lady-susan-plays-the-game-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}