[ SECRET POST #5527 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5527 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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[fscom]

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[mishey22]

I'll look it up, OP. Thank you

[(Anonymous)]

I've never even heard of this book - I'll be looking it up!

[(Anonymous)]

Lady Susan is a fabulously scandalous book

[(Anonymous)]

I blush to admit that I haven't read this, and I love Pride and Prejudice. Thanks for the reminder, I will give it a try, OP!

[(Anonymous)]

I haven't read this one yet, nor Love and Friendship, but I guess I really should!

I just finished reading Lady Susan!

[(Anonymous)]

I think the reason why I put off reading it was because I'm not fond of epistolary fiction...they can be so hit or miss. But Austen really captures the character's voice so well and I thoroughly enjoyed the scandalous, outrageous Lady Susan. Thank you for the recommendation!

[meadowphoenix]

I have an unreasonable resentment toward P&P since I found out she sold the copyright and couldn't capitalize on its popularity as much.

But in addition to P&P having the history (I think it was her most popular work while she lived so you have a historical weight working against all her other work) it's emotionally weird for a lot of people to read things that clearly aren't finished, even if they're complete, and published 60 years after her earliest work.

And you know, there's a lot of straight up emotional child abuse which is less fun to read under the guise of scandal than you might think.

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[(Anonymous)]

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Re: OP

[(Anonymous)]

Sorry, accidentally pressed a button on my phone that sent this too early!(and I almost did it again, but thank god for DW not letting you send comments that don’t have any words lmao!)

I didn’t know that about P&P, and that sucks for her! She might not have known it would get so big, but still. I think that reason for resenting it isn’t all that unreasonable actually, it makes sense to me.

I’m probably missing something, but I don’t get how it’s emotionally weird for me or anyone else to like works of hers with complicated publishing history like Lady Susan? They’re less put together than her more popular works, but she still delivers the same prose and writing quality that I adore in them.

That’s a completely fair reason to not enjoy Lady Susan though, the way Lady Susan treats Frederica is unpleasant to say the very least. I still enjoy the hell out of it in spite of how upsetting that abuse can get, and I think the scandal factor isn’t really a guise.

[(Anonymous)]

Thank you so much Secret Maker!! This secret is beautiful!

OP

[(Anonymous)]

Forgot to put OP in the header for my last comment, sorry! My brain is mush today lol

I also want to add a thank you to everyone who commented in the thread, you guys are awesome! And I’m glad I got to rec Lady Susan to others!

[refuse2shine]

I love Jane Austen but I always forget this one exists. I haven’t read it but I definitely will have to.