Reader, I Married Him
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A collection of short stories celebrating Charlotte Bront├л, published in the year of her bicentenary and stemming from the now immortal words from her great work Jane Eyre.
The twenty-one stories in Reader, I Married Him тАУ one of the most celebrated lines in fiction тАУ are inspired by Jane Eyre and shaped by its perennially fascinating themes of love, compromise and self-determination.
A bohemian wedding party takes an unexpected turn for the bride and her daughter; a family trip to a Texan waterpark prompts a life-changing decision; Grace Poole defends Bertha Mason and calls the general opinion of Jane Eyre into question. Mr Rochester reveals a long-kept secret in тАЬReader, She Married MeтАЭ, and тАЬThe MirrorтАЭ boldly imagines JaneтАЩs married life after the novel ends. A new mother encounters an old lover after her daily swim and inexplicably lies to him, and a fitness instructor teaches teenage boys how to handle a pit bull terrier by telling them Jane EyreтАЩs story.
Edited by Tracy Chevalier, this collection brings together some of the finest and most creative voices in fiction today, to celebrate and salute the strength and lasting relevance of Charlotte Bront├лтАЩs game-changing novel and its beloved narrator.
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TRACY CHEVALIER is the bestselling author of Girl with a Pearl Earring and seven other novels. She was asked by the Bront├л Society to work on the Charlotte Bront├л bicentenary in conjunction with the Bront├л Parsonage Museum at Haworth in Yorkshire. Reader, I Married Him is one result of that collaboration.
