Lady susan

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Whit Stillman adapts Jane Austen and makes the most purely droll film of his career.

Lady Susan Vernon is the eponymous antihero of Austen's romantic black comedy. Sophisticated, seductive, and amoral, she is characterized by the scholar Marilyn Butler as "a cruising shark in her social goldfish pond." The narrative focuses on the recently widowed Susan's strategic attempts to achieve advantageous marriages for herself and her shy but intractable daughter, Frederica. Her letters, written to multiple recipients, eventually reveal the full extent of her manipulative and…

Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, from haunted New England to a sun-drenched Mediterranean island, and from a game of chess on the ocean to a love story on the moon. Beautifully designed and printed, these collectible…

Lady Susan. Penguin Little Clothbound Classics. Cover Design by Coralie Bickford Smith.

A Penguin Classics edition of three lesser-known Austen works, including Lady Susan, the basis for Whit Stillman's feature film Love and Friendship starring Kate Beckinsale and Chlo Sevigny. These three short works show Austen experimenting with a variety of different literary styles, from melodrama to satire, and exploring a range of social classes and settings. The early epistolary novel Lady Susan depicts an unscrupulous coquette, toying with the affections of several men.

Published posthumously, Lady Susan is a short epistolary novella written by Jane Austen. Without giving too much away, the plot involves a rather calculating Lady Susan, a widow. Lady Susan is clever and charming. She's so clever and charming that she manages to walk through her life and create eddies of chaos around her as she goes. She's a widow of incredible beauty and intelligence and is on a mission to secure her future by finding a husband for herself and her reluctant daughter…

Watch The Divine Jane, a short documentary film specially commissioned for the exhibition, browse a digital facsimile of Lady Susan accompanied by audio, and view selected images from the exhibition.

Lady Susan Vernon is the eponymous antihero of Austen's romantic black comedy. Sophisticated, seductive, and amoral, she is characterized by the scholar Marilyn Butler as "a cruising shark in her social goldfish pond." The narrative focuses on the recently widowed Susan's strategic attempts to achieve advantageous marriages for herself and her shy but intractable daughter, Frederica. Her letters, written to multiple recipients, eventually reveal the full extent of her manipulative and…