Stories Inspired by Other Fiction

aulsmith: Based on the Aeneid.

sturlington: "The Night Ocean" by H.P. Lovecraft

sturlington: Melmoth the Wanderer

merrystar: Tam Lin

sturlington: Inspired by Beowulf

merrystar: Macbeth

merrystar: elements of assorted stories with fairy godmothers

aulsmith: Inspired by Harry Potter and the Narnia books.

aulsmith: A rewrite of Mallory's Le Morte d'Arthur

sturlington: Inspired by Dracula.

sturlington: Inspired by The Lost World (Doyle).

aulsmith: Inspired by The Wizard of Oz

sturlington: Inspired by We.

Her_Royal_Orangeness: modern retelling of Shakespeare's King Lear

aulsmith: More heavy-handed than Austen.

sturlington: Inspired by Emma. Satire of rural romantic fiction popular at the time.

elkiedee: I think it's not really inspired by or a response to Emma. Mary Webb was a popular author at the time and some of her work has been repented by Virago, and I understand that this was a parody of more contemporary novels than of Jane Austen.

aulsmith: I didn't think this went very well with Jane Eyre.

elkiedee: Wide Sargasso Sea is the story of Antoinette, known as Bertha, the Madwoman in the Attic of Jane Eyre. It's a very different perspective on the and story, and offers a bit of a challenge to the idea of Mr Rochester as a romantic hero. I'm not really a fan of Jane Eyre, apart from the early chapters which fascinated ms a child, and love WSS. I suspect that people who love JE and find it romantic will feel aggrieved by the challenge of WSS.

Dilara86: Inspired by Jane Eyre

Her_Royal_Orangeness: companion to Jane Eyre; tells the story of Bertha and how she met Rochester; very different from Jane Eyre in style and theme

aulsmith: Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

sturlington: Inspired by The Mysteries of Udolpho.

merrystar: Pride and Prejudice

kaystj: Jane Eyre in space