RIS ID
14177
Abstract
This is an excerpt from the fourth chapter of Shady Cosgrove's The Varens Obsession. Set in the 1830s, the novel responds to Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre in a Rhysian tradition by exploring the life of Edward Rochester's mistress, Celine Varens. Celine was an opera dancer/courtesan and mother to Adele Varens (the child who inspired Jane's arrival at Thornfield)...
Publication Details
Cosgrove, S. "From the Varens Obsession." Southerly: a review of Australian literature 64 .3 (2004): 10-14.