Was it all about Susan?

Added: 2026-05-17

[00:00:00]We've just had the Austin virtual meeting talking about lack of a comfortable home.

[00:00:05]Uh one of the things we're talking about is how as we all see that Austin didn't write when she was in Bath and Southampton. She only ever wrote really when she was in Steventon.

[00:00:16]And at Chawton. I mean, we know she did write some things.

[00:00:21]Uh The Watsons, for example. And I realized though that Susan, what was eventually published as Northanger Abbey, was sold while she was living in Bath.

[00:00:30]And then when she's leaving Southampton, she writes that angry little letter uh the publisher referring to herself as Mrs. Ashton Dennis, which people [ __ ] love, by the way. It is pretty funny.

[00:00:45]So, I wonder if it might not just be about where she's living and her lack of a home, stable, comfortable, but wanting to know what happened to her book, that maybe she was on a hold partly because the novel that she sold hadn't been published yet.