Stories Inspired by Other Fiction

sturlington: Inspired by The Mysteries of Udolpho.

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 Three Men in a Boat. Also homage to Gaudy Night and The Moonstone.

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.

Her_Royal_Orangeness: modern retelling of Shakespeare's King Lear

Her_Royal_Orangeness: companion to Little Women; tells the story of the father Mr. March

sturlington: Inspired by We.

aulsmith: Inspired by The Wizard of Oz

sturlington: Inspired by Pride and Prejudice.

elkiedee: A kind of irreverent commercial fiction take on the Pride and Prejudice story. Good fun. Bridget Jones really kicked off a whole load of comic chicklit novels with a take on Jane Austen characters.

thorold: David Copperfield

aulsmith: Based on the Aeneid.

Her_Royal_Orangeness: inspired by The Odyssey

sturlington: Inspired by The Lost World (Doyle).

sturlington: Jane Eyre

sturlington: Inspired by Dracula.

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

aulsmith: Inspired by Harry Potter and the Narnia books.

sturlington: Various fairy tales and folktales, Alice in wonderland

aulsmith: Don't be disappointed. It's not really a mystery, but it's a really good book.

sturlington: Homage to the Sherlock Holmes stories.

BookLizard: The servants' view of the events in Pride and Prejudice.

sturlington: The Tempest

cbl_tn: Hogarth Shakespeare modern retelling of The Taming of the Shrew.

aulsmith: Trollope's Framley Parsonage

cbl_tn: Hogarth Shakespeare retelling of The Winter's Tale.

sturlington : Inspired by Dracula.

merrystar: Macbeth

merrystar: elements of assorted stories with fairy godmothers

Her_Royal_Orangeness: loosely based on Howards End; described by author as an "homage" to Forster's novel

sturlington: Inspired by Beowulf

cbl_tn: Pride and Prejudice

sturlington: Pastiche of Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot novels

aulsmith: The Mark of Zorro by Johnston McCulley

cbl_tn: Homage to H. Rider Haggard's novels.

merrystar: Tam Lin

thorold: Great Expectations

Her_Royal_Orangeness: explores the same themes as The Scarlet Letter - religion, oppression, etc. - in a futuristic setting

sturlington: Alice in Wonderland

sturlington: Arabian nights

sturlington: Melmoth the Wanderer

aulsmith: Dr. Jekell and Mr. Hyde from the maid's pov.

KimarieBee: inspired by Spells of Enchantment (Parslinette/Rapunzel)

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

Her_Royal_Orangeness: inspired by Peter Pan

sturlington: The Iliad

sturlington: Greek myths, most prominently The Odyssey

Her_Royal_Orangeness: modern retelling of Shakespeare's Hamlet

sturlington: Hamlet

sturlington: Inspired by The Count of Monte Cristo.

cyderry: Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie - how Peter learned to fly

sturlington: Homage to Frankenstein

Her_Royal_Orangeness: inspired by Wuthering Heights

Her_Royal_Orangeness: related to The Great Gatsby

sturlington: Myth oif Theseus

thorold: sequel to Tom Brown's Schooldays

BookLizard: I don't want to give away what it's retelling because that discovery is part of the fun, but I will say, you don't get much more star-crossed than a human and a zombie.

kaystj: Retelling of "East of the Sun West of the Moon"

sturlington: The fairy tale by the same name

Her_Royal_Orangeness: GLBTQ retelling of Cinderella

dara85: Inspired by Gone With the Wind

sturlington: Sleeping beauty

dara85: Inspired by Jane Eyre

sturlington: Retells the H.P. Lovecraft story "The Horror at Red Hook"

Her_Royal_Orangeness: Where the Wild Things Are

thorold: The bully from Tom Brown's Schooldays in a storyline inspired by The Prisoner of Zenda

KimarieBee: inspired by Peter Pan

Her_Royal_Orangeness: set in a world based on Tolkien's Middle-earth; shares plot points with The Lord of the Rings

Her_Royal_Orangeness: authorized sequel to Peter Pan

sturlington: Death in Venice

sturlington: The Willows by Algernon Blackwood

sturlington: The White People by Arthur Machen

dara85: Based on Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier

cbl_tn: Dante's Inferno

aulsmith: A re-working of Heart of Darkness

sturlington: Inspired by the Aeneid

dara85: Historical fiction- inspired by the Wizard of Oz. The love story of L. Frank Baum and Maud Gage and Maud's assistance in the making of the movie, The Wizard of Oz.

inge87: Fantasy set in a world where Shakespeare is "The Great Historian" and everything he wrote actually happened.

thorold: Completes Jane Austen's unfinished novel, Sanditon

kaystj: contemporary Jane Eyre, with Rochester as an aging rock star

sturlington: Inspired by The Tempest.

aulsmith: Inspired by Joanna Russ's Whileaway stories.

sturlington: Lovecraft

kaystj: Jane Eyre in space

kaystj: Retelling of Dracula from his point of view

kaystj: Retelling of "East of the Sun West of the Moon"

cbl_tn: Modern retelling of Pride and Prejudice

kaystj: Jane Eyre with vampires

Her_Royal_Orangeness: inspired by Gilgamesh, the epic poem