Jane Austen's Lady Susan

LADY SUSAN, Austen's one epistolary novel, recounts the adventures of the beautiful, widowed, and utterly self-serving femme fatale Lady Susan, who manages to capture the heart of every man who comes her way, including the husband of one friend and the fiancé of another. Meanwhile, she attempts to marry her innocent young daughter off to a man she doesn't love--for money, of course. Austen left this wicked novel unfinished, but appended an epilogue detailing the fates of all the characters.