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.

What fun!

In Lady Vernon and Her Daughter, Jane Rubino and Caitlen Rubino-Bradway have taken Austen's original novella and transformed it into a vivid and richly developed novel of love lost and found–and the complex relationships between women, men, and money in Regency England.

Lady Vernon and Her Daughter

A reading and talk by Mother/daughter team of Jane Rubino and Caitlen Rubino-Bradway

Thursday, Oct 15th at 6:30 p.m.
at the Center for Fiction (formerly the Mercantile Library)
at 17 E. 47th Street, NYC

To attend this event, please call the Library directly at 212-755-6710 to reserve your spot (space is limited) or email them at info@mercantilelibrary.org

This event is FREE but you must reserve a spot.