The book and film both showcase some of the sharpest lines from Austen’s overlooked work, like Lady Susan’s complaint that her friend’s husband is “too old to be governable, too young to die!” The 41 letters from Austen’s “Lady Susan” are included in an appendix. Stillman takes the characters and plot from Austen’s fictionalized letters and narrates the tale from the perspective of Lady Susan’s nephew, who hopes to counter criticism of his maligned aunt. Stillman’s novel based on “Lady Susan,” which he retitled, “Love & Friendship.” In the novel, Mr. On Friday, May 13, the filmmaker Whit Stillman’s adaptation of the story, starring Kate Beckinsale as Lady Susan and Chloë Sevigny as her scheming sidekick, arrives in theaters. Now, Lady Susan is finally getting some long overdue respect. The novella, “Lady Susan,” was finally released more than 50 years after her death, but the story never really caught on with devotees of her other, more famous works. Sometime in the 1790s, Jane Austen wrote a wickedly funny epistolary novella about a widow named Lady Susan, whose beauty and charm are matched only by her cunning ability to manipulate the doting men around her.Īusten never tried to publish it.
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