Is a treat in store for Jane Austen fans? A movie of her novella, Lady Susan, is out now.
Lady Susan is one of my favourite Austen works, not least because its eponymous anti-heroine is so unlike any other of Jane's characters in her more mature works. (It's believed that Jane probably wrote Lady Susan in her late teens). I haven't seen the movie yet, but the
official website has a trailer, and the frocks and locations look lovely.
I have not been able to update my blogs for ages as I've been busy writing a new book, but I hope to resume normal service very soon and continue my literary theme on Jane Austen's predecessors as promised
earlier this year.
Illustration: A satirical print of 1796 showing the latest fashions. Courtesy Library of Congress.
