![]() Her manner now is designed to disarm criticism, in particular that of Reginald De Courcy, Catherine’s young brother, no easy task as her reputation as “the most accomplished flirt in England” has preceded her. ![]() As a penniless widow, detected in her intrigues with Lord Manwaring, she had left his home under a cloud. It opens with Lady Susan Vernon-a scheming beauty who at thirty-four could pass for twenty-four-making an overly long-delayed visit to the country home of her brother-in-law, Charles Vernon, and his wife, Catherine, n é e De Courcy. In doing so he honours the book by placing the action in the eighteenth century: women’s coiffures are impossibly abundant mounting to impressive heights before cascading down in billowing curls and ringlets the costumes, colourful and unworn, take full advantage of the fashions of a formal society and the settings have the perfection of stately homes on display, as they no doubt are.ĭespite Austen’s well-known sparseness of detail with regard to scenery and personal appearance, he captures something of the idealized, almost mythological depiction of the English society of the novels. In Love & Friendship he moves directly to Austen in an adaptation of her epistolary novel Lady Susan, begun sometime around 1794 when she would have been eighteen. Whit Stillman’s partiality for Jane Austen is obvious in his first film, Metropolitan, and close to the surface in Damsels in Distress. ![]()
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