The one with a deranged first wife locked up in the attic (cue Friends theme song)

A contributor to Slate thinks Bridgerton fans will love My Lady Jane and mentions the rest of the book series.

I loved The Great and Dickinson when they came out, but I now feel weary of historical television that seems to be built as if the showrunners worry that we would stop watching if we got bored for even a second. You have pop music, the sudden and jarring use of profanity and contemporary humor, a heroine who is both anachronistically audacious and way too girlboss-y. This bag of tricks is starting to feel familiar, and not a little bit grating.

My Lady Jane’s case was not helped when I discovered that it is an adaptation of a young adult novel that’s part of a series called The Lady Janies. (The heroines of the other five books include Jane Eyre, Calamity Jane, and a string of Marys: Mary Shelley, the pirate Mary Read, and the Queen of Scots.) (Rebecca Onion)

The Herald sums up Jane Eyre as follows:

It’s the one with (spoiler alert) a young second wife, a brooding older husband and a deranged first wife locked up in the attic. (Barry Didcock)