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Title

Reader, I married him

Type

Text

Monograph

Contribution

Chevalier, Tracy (Editor)

Subject

Short stories--Women authors (LCSH)

Short stories--Women authors (FAST)

Brontë, Charlotte, 1816-1855 Jane Eyre

Genre Form

Short stories (FAST)

Short stories (GSAFD)

Short stories (LCGFT)

Language

English

Classification

LCC: PN6120.92.W65 R43 2016

DDC: 808.8/31 full

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Content

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Summary

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.

Table Of Contents

Foreword / by Tracy Chevalier

My mother's wedding / Tessa Hadley

Luxury hour / Sarah Hall

Grace Poole her testimony / Helen Dunmore

Dangerous dog / Kirsty Gunn

To hold / Joanna Briscoe

It's a man's life, ladies / Jane Gardam

Since first I saw your face / Emma Donoghue

Reader, I married him / Susan Hill

The mirror / Francine Prose

A migrating bird / Elif Shafak

Behind the mountain / Evie Wyld

The China from Buenos Aires / Patricia Park

Reader, she married me / Salley Vickers

Dorset gap / Tracy Chevalier

Party girl / Nadifa Mohamed

Transference / Esther Freud

The mash-up / Linda Grant

The self-seeding sycamore / Lionel Shriver

The orphan exchange / Audrey Niffenegger

Double men / Namwali Serpell

Robinson Crusoe at the waterpark / Elizabeth McCracken

Notes on the contributors

A note on Charlotte Brontë.

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Reader, I married him

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