Jane Austen and the Drama of Woman

Emily Herbert: forerunner of Jane Austen's Lady Susan

“…[7] Lady Stanley, too, had been declared "a monster of iniquity" by a critic for The Monthly Review or Literary Journal, November 1786. Like Lady Susan, Lady Stanley also was recently widowed and earning the reputation as "the most accomplished coquette in England" (LS, p. 47).…”