The Mirror: A Short Story from the collection, Reader, I Married Him

By Francine Prose

A short story by Francine Prose from the collection Reader, I Married Him: Stories inspired by Jane Eyre.

‘The Mirror’ boldly imagines Jane Eyre’s married life after the novel ends.

Edited by Tracy Chevalier, the full collection, Reader, I Married Him, brings together some of the finest and most creative voices in fiction today, to celebrate and salute the strength and lasting relevance of Charlotte Brontë’s game-changing novel and its beloved narrator.

• Language: English
• Publisher: HarperCollins UK
• Release date: Apr 21, 2016
• ISBN: 9780008173401

Francine Prose

Francine Prose is the author of twenty-two works of fiction including the highly acclaimed The Vixen; Mister Monkey; the New York Times bestseller Lovers at the Chameleon Club, Paris 1932; A Changed Man, which won the Dayton Literary Peace Prize; and Blue Angel, which was a finalist for the National Book Award. Her works of nonfiction include the highly praised Anne Frank: The Book, The Life, The Afterlife, and the New York Times bestseller Reading Like a Writer, which has become a classic. The recipient of numerous grants and honors, including a Guggenheim and a Fulbright, a Director’s Fellow at the Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library, Prose is a former president of PEN American Center, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She is a Distinguished Writer in Residence at Bard College.

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The Mirror

Francine Prose

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A short story from the collection

Reader,

I Married Him:

Stories inspired

by

Jane Eyre

edited by

Tracy Chevalier

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Published by The Borough Press

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First published in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers 2016

Foreword © Tracy Chevalier 2016

The Mirror © Francine Prose 2016

The moral rights of the authors have been asserted

Cover design by Heike Schüssler © HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd 2016

Jacket photograph © Dan Saelinger/Trunk Archive

A catalogue copy of this book is available from the British Library.

This story is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it, while at times based on historical events and figures, are the works of the authors’ imaginations.

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