Eyreaholic or Eyrehead?

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"Why does Ms. Bailey say I burned down Thornfield?"
"Because she got all the characters wrong, Adèle."
"And what of Ms. Tennant? She says I hate you!"
"Hush; do not speak of that crime against fiction."

Cashing in some Amazon vouchers, I'm now waiting for these babies to be delivered to my doorstep:

  • Adèle, Grace, and Céline: The Other Women of "Jane Eyre" by Claire Moise
  • Jane Eyre's Daughter by Elizabeth Newark
  • Jane Slayre by Sherri Browning Erwin and Charlotte Brontë

And a Cliffs Notes about Jane Eyre as well, because it sounded useful. And - just so I can have it as a reminder to myself for the next time my survey-taking pays off (or hey, it's my birthday in a few weeks!) - here's a list of books on my wish list:

  • The Ivy Tree by Mary Stewart (ooh, they're selling it for a penny! Sweet!)
  • Jenna Starborn by Sharon Shinn
  • Jane by April Lindner (huh, Amazon says it's not been released yet?)
  • Jane Airhead by Kay Woodward

I think I can borrow Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier from a sister-in-law, and either way, I found an adaptation of it in a charity shop some months ago, and haven't seen it yet. I would like to get my mitts on Jane Rochester by Kimberly A. Bennett but it's going for silly money on both Amazon and eBay. I ain't payin' out £150+ for a second hand book! I might be desperate, but I'm not that desperate made of money.

A Breath of Fresh Eyre: Intertextual and Intermedial Reworkings of "Jane Eyre" by Margarete Rubik and Elke Mettinger-Schartmann could be interesting, and even more so Mrs. Rochester by Warwick Blanchett - but not £60 each worth of interesting ... :(

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And I don't even say I read fanfic. Although now I guess I do. For study purposes. The spin-offs I've read so far have been most edifying, especially from a "what the hell? No, that's just WRONG!" perspective. At least it works well when it comes to figuring out what to write myself. :)

Comments

  1. Maria Grazia23 June 2010 at 17:35

    As for Jane Eyre sequels and spin-offs, Traxy, I'm really eager to read an Italian one by Bianca Pitzorno, "La bambinaia francese", in which a French babysitter/governess tells the story from a very different point of view, that of Adele's mother, the French dancer. I hope I'll find a copy and can read it by the end of the summer. I've jsut heard about it but the novel was published in 2004. I'm afraid, no translation so far.

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  2. Traxy24 June 2010 at 14:25

    Ooh, interesting. I hope you manage to find it - I'd love to read your review of it! :D

    No hope of reading it myself, I don't know Italian. I think there's a French spin-off as well (saw a review on BrontëBlog), but alas, that too is a language I'm not proficient in. I wouldn't mind attempting a German one, if there is one, even though it would take a very long time to understand it.

    Raises an interesting question, though - how many JE spin-offs are out there in languages other than English?

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