Reader, I married him : stories inspired by Jane Eyre /
Reader, I married him : stories inspired by Jane Eyre /
edited by Tracy Chevalier.
- First Morrow Paperbacks edition.
- 295 pages ; 21 cm
First published in hardcover in Great Britain by Borough Press, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, in 2016.
Foreword / My mother's wedding / Luxury hour / Grace Poole her testimony / Dangerous dog / To hold / It's a man's life, ladies / Since first I saw your face / Reader, I married him / The mirror / A migrating bird / Behind the mountain / The China from Buenos Aires / Reader, she married me / Dorset gap / Party girl / Transference / The mash-up / The self-seeding sycamore / The orphan exchange / Double men / Robinson Crusoe at the waterpark / Notes on the contributors -- A note on Charlotte Brontë. by Tracy Chevalier -- Tessa Hadley -- Sarah Hall -- Helen Dunmore -- Kirsty Gunn -- Joanna Briscoe -- Jane Gardam -- Emma Donoghue -- Susan Hill -- Francine Prose -- Elif Shafak -- Evie Wyld -- Patricia Park -- Salley Vickers -- Tracy Chevalier -- Nadifa Mohamed -- Esther Freud -- Linda Grant -- Lionel Shriver -- Audrey Niffenegger -- Namwali Serpell -- Elizabeth McCracken --
Chapter 38 of Charlotte Brontë's novel, Jane Eyre, opens with the line "Reader, I married him." Now twenty women authors have spun original stories using that line as inspiration for this collection of unique, inventive, and poignant stories. This collection of original stories by today's finest women writers--including Tracy Chevalier, Francine Prose, Elizabeth McCracken, Tessa Hadley, Audrey Niffenegger, and more--takes inspiration from the opening line in Charlotte Brontë's most beloved novel, Jane Eyre. A fixture in the literary canon, Charlotte Brontë is revered by readers all over the world. Her novels featuring unforgettable, strong heroines still resonate with millions today. And who could forget one of literature's best-known lines: "Reader, I married him" from her classic novel Jane Eyre? Part of a remarkable family that produced three acclaimed female writers at a time in nineteenth-century Britain when few women wrote, and fewer were published, Bronté has become a great source of inspiration to writers, especially women, ever since. Now in Reader, I Married Him, twenty of today's most celebrated women authors have spun original stories, using the opening line from Jane Eyre as a springboard for their own flights of imagination.
9780062447098 0062447092 0008150575 (Cloth) 9780008150570 (Cloth) 0008150583 (Paper) 9780008150587 (Paper) 0606385347 (Cloth) 9780606385343 (Cloth)
Short stories--Women authors.
Short stories.
First published in hardcover in Great Britain by Borough Press, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, in 2016.
Foreword / My mother's wedding / Luxury hour / Grace Poole her testimony / Dangerous dog / To hold / It's a man's life, ladies / Since first I saw your face / Reader, I married him / The mirror / A migrating bird / Behind the mountain / The China from Buenos Aires / Reader, she married me / Dorset gap / Party girl / Transference / The mash-up / The self-seeding sycamore / The orphan exchange / Double men / Robinson Crusoe at the waterpark / Notes on the contributors -- A note on Charlotte Brontë. by Tracy Chevalier -- Tessa Hadley -- Sarah Hall -- Helen Dunmore -- Kirsty Gunn -- Joanna Briscoe -- Jane Gardam -- Emma Donoghue -- Susan Hill -- Francine Prose -- Elif Shafak -- Evie Wyld -- Patricia Park -- Salley Vickers -- Tracy Chevalier -- Nadifa Mohamed -- Esther Freud -- Linda Grant -- Lionel Shriver -- Audrey Niffenegger -- Namwali Serpell -- Elizabeth McCracken --
Chapter 38 of Charlotte Brontë's novel, Jane Eyre, opens with the line "Reader, I married him." Now twenty women authors have spun original stories using that line as inspiration for this collection of unique, inventive, and poignant stories. This collection of original stories by today's finest women writers--including Tracy Chevalier, Francine Prose, Elizabeth McCracken, Tessa Hadley, Audrey Niffenegger, and more--takes inspiration from the opening line in Charlotte Brontë's most beloved novel, Jane Eyre. A fixture in the literary canon, Charlotte Brontë is revered by readers all over the world. Her novels featuring unforgettable, strong heroines still resonate with millions today. And who could forget one of literature's best-known lines: "Reader, I married him" from her classic novel Jane Eyre? Part of a remarkable family that produced three acclaimed female writers at a time in nineteenth-century Britain when few women wrote, and fewer were published, Bronté has become a great source of inspiration to writers, especially women, ever since. Now in Reader, I Married Him, twenty of today's most celebrated women authors have spun original stories, using the opening line from Jane Eyre as a springboard for their own flights of imagination.
9780062447098 0062447092 0008150575 (Cloth) 9780008150570 (Cloth) 0008150583 (Paper) 9780008150587 (Paper) 0606385347 (Cloth) 9780606385343 (Cloth)
Short stories--Women authors.
Short stories.