“I do not know how to apologize enough for this letter; I know it is taking so great a liberty” (XXI).
Frederica, Lady Susan’s daughter and near-rival, displays her guilt for writing a pleading letter to Sir Reginald de Courcy asking for his assistance in dealing with her mother. In her mother’s eyes, Frederica is a wretched, worthless child who does not deserve to be related to her, but this letter to De Courcy shows a part of Frederica that Lady Susan either refuses to acknowledge or is not aware of. Austen uses Frederica’s interactions with both De Courcy and Lady Susan to characterize Frederica more completely. Austen’s methods for giving her characters their defining qualities are unconventional because of the style and format that Lady Susan is written in.
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