A couple of recent novels with Brontë references. The first one is not for purists:
Reader, I Married Him
Author: Janet Mullany
Cover Artist: Christine M. Griffin
Loose-Id
ISBN: 978-1-60737-562-3
March 23, 2010
Two con artists descend on the heroic Miss Jane Eyre, presenting themselves as her cousins Diana and St. John Rivers, and discover the dark secret of Thornfield Hall. Edward Rochester, whom Jane was to marry, is her prisoner and sex slave, but he’s tiring of the game.
Diana frees him and herself, finally able to choose love and the life she wants. St. John, who fears he’s lost his nerve as a con man, becomes Jane’s lover with reenactments of her sadistic Lowood School memories, and love sets him off on a new adventure in pursuit of Jane.
Publisher's Note: This book contains explicit sexual content, graphic language, and situations that some readers may find objectionable: Captivity, partner swapping, voyeurism.
Silent on the Moor
A Lady Julia Novel
Deanna Raybourn
March 2009
MIRA Books
ISBN: 978-0778326144
Despite his admonitions to stay away, Lady Julia arrives in Yorkshire to find Brisbane as remote and maddeningly attractive as ever. Cloistered together, they share the moldering house with the proud but impoverished remnants of an ancient family—the sort that keeps their bloodline pure and their secrets close. Lady Allenby and her daughters, dependent upon Brisbane and devastated by their fall in society, seem adrift on the moor winds, powerless to change their fortunes. But poison does not discriminate between classes….
A mystery unfolds from the rotten heart of Grimsgrave, one Lady Julia may have to solve alone, as Brisbane appears inextricably tangled in its heinous twists and turns. But blood will out, and before spring touches the craggy northern landscape, Lady Julia will have uncovered a Gypsy witch, a dark rider and a long-buried legacy of malevolence and evil.
On the
author's blog there are more explicit references to Wuthering Heights:
No doubt I've been hugely influenced by the Brontes and Jane Austen, and a trifle by Dickens, although that was entirely against my will, I assure you. Wuthering Heights has long been one of my two favorites of the Bronte novels for a variety of reasons. (Read more)
Bookreporter confirms it:
Do you read a lot of mystery novels? Who are some of your favorite authors, whether or not they influenced your own work?
WUTHERING HEIGHTS, because Emily Brontë was ruthless. Great writers are not afraid to break a reader's heart.
Categories: Books, Jane Eyre, References, Sequels, Wuthering Heights
A couple of recent novels with Brontë references. The first one is not for purists:
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