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Mixed-Race Heiresses in Early-Nineteenth-Century Literature: Sanditon’s Miss Lambe in Context

ABSTRACT This essay analyzes Jane Austen’s unfinished novel Sanditon (1817) and its inclusion of a character of color. I discuss Austen’s mixed-race heiress, Miss Lambe, in the context of two other pieces of fiction that feature mixed-race heroines—the anonymously published The Woman of Colour (1808) and Mary Ann Sullivan’s Owen Castle (1816). Where her contemporaries sentimentalize these racially othered heroines, Austen, I argue, refuses this convention, normalizing Miss Lambe’s position within the English society that Austen satirizes. In doing so, she writes back against the tendency to fetishize cultural difference and opens up a site of critique against racial prejudice.