# Lady Susan

Lady Susan by Jane Austen has 23,143 words.

## At a glance

Novel by Jane Austen.

- **Author:** [Jane Austen](https://musael.com/books/authors/jane-austen.md) (1775–1817)
- **First published:** 1871
- **Original language:** British English
- **Genre:** literary fiction
- **Readers:** adult

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 23,143
- **Reading time:** 1 h 33 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 2 h 29 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 1 h 56 min | 4 days |
| 250 wpm | 1 h 33 min | 4 days |
| 300 wpm | 1 h 17 min | 3 days |

## Read or listen

Lady Susan is in the public domain: these editions are free to download, read and share.

- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/946
- LibriVox audiobook (2 h 27 min): https://librivox.org/lady-susan-by-jane-austen

## Counted from the text

Automated estimates from the selected Project Gutenberg text; it may include a preface or notes.

- Words in the text: 23,143
- Dialogue: 12% of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence: 21.1 words

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/946 (word count)
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q581180
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Susan
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL66614W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/946

Checked on 2026-10-27. Page counts change from edition to edition.

Source: https://musael.com/books/lady-susan