Jane Austen discussion

Hey, lovely people! :)

Since I'm having a "Jane Austen" month, and I have decided to postpone reading Emma until January for group read, I have decided to re-read Lady Susan.
Although I despise her, for the person and mother she is, I find her very refreshing in Jane Austen work opus. Since all of Austen's main characters are so good, it was so strange to see one very bad. I just couldn't imagine Jane writing someone so full of disdain and conceit. I, of course, applaud her, because she had me hooked from the first. And such an easy transition from one character to other. I am delighted.
What are your thoughts?

I did enjoy reading Lady Susan, although lady Susan just blow my mind in how she treated her daughter. It is definitely different from her other main works, in fact I enjoyed it my third favourite Austen.I enjoy the letter writing style, I believe this epistle like style was the foundation for Sense and Sensibility, in the form of Elinor and Marianne. I am hoping someone makes an adaptation in the near future.

In case folks did not know, there is film adaptation of Lady Susan coming out this year, in April but thr film name is Love and Friendship.

I reread Lady Susan last year and really enjoyed it, though I wanted to shake Jane Austen for the summary ending—there were some delicious scenes left on the table!

The story interests me because it shows us how JA throughout her teens was holding a mental dialogue with literary conventions. She knew from an early age that romantic fiction was full of mockworthy elements; she knew she wanted to write a different kind of fiction. But how to go about it? In the other juvenile stories, she always picks traditional heroines and makes fun of them. Lady Susan seems like an alternative cast for her: why not focus on the villain and see how the story looks from that vantage point? I almost wish she had stuck with that approach (still waiting for her Mansfield Park from Mary Crawford’s point of view!). Instead, she went for more subtlety—heroines in realistic situations instead of heroines in unrealistic situations; heroines with flaws instead of heroines who were perfect in every respect. In the process she created realism—but melodrama from the villain’s point of view would have been great, too!

Noirfifre wrote: "In case folks did not know, there is film adaptation of Lady Susan coming out this year, in April but thr film name is Love and Friendship."

Thanks for that, I haven't heard about it before, it looks interesting.