1792
Jane Austen
The Three Sisters
B-
Despite the Chekhovian title, this is Austen finding her ultimate subject matter, a family of sisters with a mother eager to marry off one of them, it doesn't matter which, to an unappetising suitor. Most of the letters are written by Lizzy-Bennet-like Georgiana. The greatest flaw of the story is that it is a fragment, and unlike the earlier fragments it has the potential to grow into a very good story. (Sir William Montague is "unfinished," but it's a pretty one-note tale.)
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