Comments on: Preview – Lady Vernon and Her Daughter: A Jane Austen Novel, by Jane Rubino & Caitlen Rubino-Bradway

By: FrancesGrimble

FrancesGrimble — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 22:12:42 +0000

I’ve read one OK rewrite of Lady Susan . . . it’s time for a really good one. There are reviews of Lady Vernon and Her Daughter on Amazon already.

By: A Soirée with Lady Susan: Guest Blog with Jane Rubino & Caitlen Rubino-Bradway authors of Lady Vernon and her Daughter « Austenprose

Mon, 07 Sep 2009 07:02:34 +0000

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Announcing – Lady Vernon and her Daughter Book Trailer « Austenprose — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 00:39:39 +0000

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By: Jeanne

Jeanne — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 20:11:32 +0000

Interesting to know that this is a mother-daughter writing team. My review of this novel will be up at Necromancy Never Pays tomorrow (July 28, 2009). You’ll find that the title Lady Vernon is not used in accordance with the rules discussed in the comments here, and that the character of this “Lady Vernon” has little or nothing in common with the character conveyed in Austen’s original letters. The story revolves around the idea that the letter-writers were misconstruing Susan’s motives all along. This Susan (Lady Vernon) is a paragon of traditional womanly virtue for the period.

By: Mags

Mags — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 02:29:16 +0000

Actually I think I got the timing of Hornblower’s peerage wrong–he was knighted when he escaped from the French prison, and raised to the peerage later. And of course his estate is Smallbridge, not Smallridge. And I call myself a fangirl. *slaps self with Clue Trout*

By: Mags

Mags — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 02:23:34 +0000

An example of a (fictional) character who went from Lady Firstname to Lady Lastname upon her marriage is Lady Barbara Wellesley from the Horatio Hornblower series. Lady Barbara is the youngest sister of the Wellesley brothers, Arthur and Richard–you might know the former big brother as the Duke of Wellington. Lady Barbara is, of course, entirely fictional, made up by C.S. Forester, while her “brothers” were real people.

Anyway, as the daughter of the Earl of Mornington, she was Lady Barbara Wellesley by birth. She first married Sir Percy Leighton, who was a baronet; since her husband was not a peer, she was styled Lady Barbara Leighton. Sir Percy was killed in action.

Hornblower was promoted to the peerage (Baron Hornblower of Smallridge) after escaping from a French prison, and when he married Lady Barbara, she was styled Lady Hornblower as her husband was a peer. *whew*

Not to belabor the point or cast aspersions on the book under discussion, but Cinthia is absolutely right; and unless the author made some fairly major changes to Jane Austen’s story, “Lady Vernon” is not a correct style for Lady Susan Vernon. While it’s great to see a new idea in JA paraliterature, it doesn’t give a lot of confidence when something as simple as her title is wrong, or raises a question with the person who is thinking about reading it.

By: D. Taylor

D. Taylor — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 10:47:09 +0000

I am with Laurel Ann on this one. In Pride and Prejudice Lizzy completely mischaracterizes Darcy because she judges him before she knows him. Until we all get to read this book I dont think we ought to be judging its content. They say you dont judge a book by its cover but in this case if the book is as great as this enchanting cover it will have a special place on my ‘Austen Shelf’