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unusual facts about Lady Susan



Eliza de Feuillide

She is believed to have been inspirational for a number of Austen's works, such as Love and Freindship (sic), Henry and Eliza, Lady Susan and Mansfield Park.


see also

Eduardo Berti

His translations from English into Spanish include “With Borges” (by Alberto Manguel), “The Sandglass” (Romesh Gunesekera), “American Notebooks, a selection” (Nathaniel Hawthorne), “Lady Susan” (Jane Austen), and also a couple of anthologies as “New York short stories” (Edith Wharton, O. Henry, Thomas Wolfe, Dorothy Parker, etc.).

Susan de Vere, Countess of Montgomery

Lady Susan was born on 26 May 1587, the youngest daughter of Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford and Anne Cecil, the daughter of statesman William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, Queen Elizabeth's chief advisor and leading member of her Privy Council.

William Gordon, 2nd Earl of Aberdeen

Gordon's wife had died giving birth to their second child, and he then married Lady Susan Murray (the youngest child of the 1st Duke of Atholl) six years later and they had four children,