author and educator
Marian Yee
Marian Yee is the author of 4 Janes, a genre-bending re-telling of Jane Eyre.
When Jane Eyre’s story doesn’t end with her marriage to Edward Rochester, her adventures begin again as a missionary’s wife, a bookseller in Vietnam, a time-traveler, and a heroine in a modern gothic tale.
“Marian Yee’s fresh, new take on Jane Eyre asks the enduring question, What if? Her wildly adventurous novel 4 Janes transports us through time and place, from Calcutta to Vietnam to New York, as each Jane makes heartrending choices between love and duty. Jane Eyre aficionados and lay readers alike will delight in Yee’s reinvention of Bronte’s classic novel.”
—Joan Baranow, author of Reading Szymborska in a Time of Plague
Author Bio
Marian Yee is a writer, scholar, and award-winning teacher, living in Brookline, Massachusetts with her family. She teaches writing, literature and contemporary art to performing art students at Berklee College of Music. Her published writings include poems, reviews, and scholarly articles. 4 JANES was inspired by a trip to Vietnam in 1995, where the author met a street seller who was reading an abridged copy of Jane Eyre to learn English. Portions of 4 JANES were written during a residency at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts in 2018 and during a sabbatical leave from Berklee in 2021.
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