![]() ![]() The Secret Diaries of Charlotte Brontë, by Syrie James. ![]() Why read about drawing rooms and strolls through Bath when you can have horrible boarding schools and the lonely moors? It must be hard to jump the shark wearing one of those flimsy gowns.īut if you weary of genteel heroines in empire-waisted dresses… if you simply can’t take one more round of those endless country dances… take a walk on the wilder side of the English novel as publishers turn to Charlotte Brontë for inspiration. Darcy has a fling with Charles Bingley! Years go by, and still one cannot walk past the new book shelf without encountering “vampyre” Darcy or vampire Jane herself. Jane fights crime! The Darcys fight crime! Mr. Every time it seems the market for Jane Austen-esque sequels, parodies, and pastiches must have been exhausted, up pops another title. ![]()
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