May Poll Results - Love and Lady Susan

Well it looks like it's our voting membership loves Lady Susan and can take or leave Love and Friendship.

Did you like Lady Susan?
100% Yes

Did you like Love and Freindship?
Yes 50%
No 50%

Which one was your favorite?
Lady Susan 100%


If you loved Lady Susan let me recommend Lady Vernon and Her Daughter by Jane Rubino and Caitlen Rubino-Bradway.

Book Recommendations - Love and Friendship & Lady Susan

Source: Daily Mail via CNJ JASNA on Pinterest

The picture above is from the new film adaption of Jane Austen's Lady Susan. The movie is titled Love and Friendship (if you're like me you are kind of wondering if Whilt Stillman is going to pull in some of that famous fainting from that story into the movie).

If you've limited your Austen reading to her six complete novels you've missed out on some great writing!

You can read Lady Susan and Love and Friendship by following the links. Love and Friendship is part of Jane's Juvenilia collection and Lady Susan was one of her earlier works written before her novels.

Lady Susan is a short epistolary novel written between 1793 and 1795. The story follows the schemes of the widowed Lady Susan—as she seeks a new husband for herself and one for her daughter.

If you enjoyed Lady Susan or would like to get a different take on the story, there are two novels you can check out. The first is Lady Susan by Phyllis Ann Karr.

The second novel, Lady Vernon and Her Daughter is by the New Jersey mother/daughter team of Jane Rubino and Caitlen Rubino-Bradway.  In 2009, we had a wonderful meeting with the pair where we discussed the book.

Happy Reading!

Book Trailer - Lady Vernon and Her Daughter

I recently came across a pin of the book trailer on Pinterest.  It was uploaded 4 years ago, it seems hard to believe that it was that long ago.

I really enjoyed reading this book, and if you haven't picked it up yet, I highly suggest that you give it a try.

 


Jane Rubino and Caitlen Rubino-Bradway do a fantastic job of re-writing and filling out Lady Susan.

Lady Susan Reading

Tickets are still available for the "Lady Susan" Salon Reading on Monday April 12, 2010 at 7:00 pm. You won't want to miss the reading and reception of this wonderful, often neglected Austen novel. You may register by using the PayPal option. To view the invitation click here. To use the PayPal option click here.

Staged reading of Lady Susan

Save the Date : Monday, April 12, 2010

For a staged reading of Lady Susan

Check out JASNA-NY's website under their Events page click here.

Lady Susan opportunity

New Lady Susan

A new book about Lady Susan is coming out soon. Here is a synopsis from the publisher's website, written by a fellow Jersey Janeite: A delightful interpretation of Jane Austen’s early novella Lady Susan–a treat for fans of literature’s most beloved woman of letters, as well as historical fiction readers.

Jane Austen’s novella Lady Susan was written during the same period in which she produced Elinor and Marianne. Like Elinor and Marianne, Lady Susan focused on the economic and romantic plights of two heroines displaced when the family home passes to an unworthy heir; but while Elinor and Marianne was revised and happily expanded to become Sense and Sensibility, Lady Susan was abandoned. Until now.

In Lady Susan and Her Daughter, Jane Rubino and Caitlen Rubino-Bradway have taken letters from this novella and transformed them into to a vivid, authentic, and more recognizably “Austen” milieu. Lady Susan and her daughter must navigate a society where a woman’s security is at the mercy of an entail, where love is hindered by misunderstanding, where marriage can never be entirely isolated from money, and yet romance somehow carries the day.