Lady Susan is Dead

"The pleasures of friendship, of unreserved conversation, of similarity of taste and opinions will make good amends for orange wine."Letter to Cassandra,20 June 1808

Jane Austen Society of Aotearoa New Zealand

Tim Bullamore, editor of Jane Austen's Regency World, crafts an obituary for Lady Susan Vernon

Some years have passed since Jane Austen cast her sharp eye over the beautiful, charming and scheming young widow Lady Susan Vernon. However, the impoverished aristocrat never changed her manipulative ways. Now that Lady Susan is dead, how will her obituary read? Will it conform to the Latin maxim “De mortuis nil nisi bonum” (Do not speak ill of the dead)? Or will it allude to her devious character?Tim Bullamore, an award-winning obituary writer best known to JASA members as editor of Jane Austen’s Regency World magazine, gives an entertaining presentation of how her obituary might appear in The Times of London today.

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