Elinor and Edward's Plans for Lucy Steele

by Mary Lydon Simonsen

After falling in love at Norland Park, Elinor Dashwood and Edward Ferrars must devise a plan to get Lucy Steele to break her secret engagement to Edward. But the course of true love never did run smoothly. This short story is a humorous retelling of Jane Austen's first published novel, Sense and Sensibility.

44 pages, Kindle Edition

First published April 23, 2011

About the author

I am the authors of several Pride & Prejudice and Persuasion re-imaginings. I have also written a modern love story, The Second Date, Love Italian-American Style, and three British mysteries, Three's A Crowd, A Killing in Kensington, A Death in Hampden, Dying to Write, and Murder by Moonlighting.

I am a wife, mother, grandmother, volunteer, reader, writer, serious recycler.

When I read for relaxation, I read mysteries. My greatest love is history. When I am doing the research for a new book, I love digging for historical nuggets.

Reviews

[Jess Swann · Rating 2 out of 5]

Une version abrégée et réécrite de Sense & Sensibility qui se centre sur Edward et Elinor. Dans cette version, Elinor est tout à fait au courant de l'existence de Lucy et complote avec Edward pour lui faire lâcher l'affaire et tous deux sont donc à l'origine du plan qui jette Lucy dans les bras de Robert. De la même façon, Marianne n'ignore pas la duplicité de Willoughby mais estime de son devoir de vivre une passion malheureuse. Bon, je n'ai pas été hyper convaincue par cette histoire, je trouve qu'une telle duplicité n'est pas du tout dans le personnage d'Elinor ou d'Edward mais c'était divertissant


Ce que j'aime : le fait de comploter pour caser Lucy (mais j'aurais plus vu Marianne agir ainsi)


Ce que j'aime moins : je trouve que ce n'est pas très cohérent avec les personnages d'Elinor et d'Edward


En bref : Une petite vignette sympathique et humoristique mais qui ne restera pas dans les mémoires


Ma note


5/10

[Sophia · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was a short story retelling of Sense and Sensibility that was humorously told spotlighting Elinor and Edward. Hilarious from cover to cover and definitely not meant to be taken seriously, I loved the short, fast plot with Elinor and Edward doing their best to convince Lucy to let Edward out of his engagement which was a youthful mistake.

I giggle-snorted through a lot, but my favorite line was about Fanny Dashwood 'given to fits of frugality on the behalf of other'. Nice one, Mary Simonsen!

[Kim · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book had me in stitches. It is a short re-telling of Sense & Sensibility, told much in the style of Jane Austen's juvenilia. There is much to laugh about, lots of drama and ridiculousness. And of course, all's well that ends well. Read for free on austenvariations.com.

[Éowyn · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was a short story based on Austen's Sense & Sensibility. It was OK, but I prefer some of the other stories I have read by this author.