![]() ![]() After he and Laura marry instead, their travels take them first to the home of Augustus and Sophia, a young couple who share their devotion to romance and opulence. When they meet, Edward is horrified by the idea of marriage to Lady Dorothea, who’s “wealthy and titled” and, worse, meets with his father’s approval. ![]() (For example, Marianne struggles with doubts about her upcoming marriage.) The story then shifts to the main plot of Austen’s original story, focusing on Laura’s recounting of her youth, starting with her first encounter with her husband, Edward Lindsay. Andrews wisely draws Marianne as a fuller character-curious, skeptical, and circumspect-who’d be very much at home in a later Austen novel. In Austen’s original, Marianne only serves as a device to prompt her mother’s friend Laura Lindsay to disgorge a tale of her own bizarre life. ![]() A reimagined version of Jane Austen’s 1790 novella Love and Freindship complements this partial collection of Austen’s early works.Īndrews’ ( The Unforgiving Eye, 2014, etc.) expansion of Austen’s early epistolary tale begins with a new frame story, narrated by a woman named Marianne. ![]()
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