![]() 2 She seems to share her heroine Anne Elliot’s reluctance to follow in the train of aristocrats, preferring the gentry and the middle classes. As often noted, Jane Austen did not as a writer spend much time on, or give much attention to, the aristocracy. ![]() 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.
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