Tell Me What You’re Reading No. 31: Charlotte Cross - Reading to write, and novels about "marginalized characters" (The Brides of Dracula, etc.)
Charlotte Cross of Oxford, England is working on a tale of the “Brides of Dracula”, following in the footsteps of other novels that have given voice to “marginalized characters”, characters (usually women) who haven't been given the chance to speak in the originals. These others include The Silence of the Girls, by Pat Barker and Wide Sargasso Sea, by Jean Rhys. Charlotte discusses those books, and others, as well as her writing process. Charlotte also discusses the books she has recently read: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, by Anne Bronte, Hemingway's A Moveable Feast, and Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott.
Find Charlotte on Twitter @MsCharlotteC; and @ LinkedIn
Some of Charlotte’s source material
Dracula, by Bram Stoker
Review The Guardian
Who Is Dracula’s Father, by Professor John Sutherland
How to Be a Victorian, by Ruth Goodman
Reviews The New York Times | NPR
Some of Charlotte’s inspirations
The Silence of the Girls, by Pat Barker
Review The New York Times
Wide Sargasso Sea, by Jean Rhys
Reviews The Guardian | The Paris Review
The Deathless Girls, by Kiran Millwood Hargrave
Reviews Bookstacked | Bookstoker
The Trojan Women, by Euripides
Circe, by Madeline Miller
Reviews The Irish Times | The New York Times | The Guardian
The Song of Achilles, by Madeline Miller
Reviews The New York Times | The Guardian | Time | The Washington Post
Longbourn, by Jo Baker
Review The Guardian
March, by Geraldine Brooks
Reviews Pulitzer Prize | The New York Times
What Charlotte is Reading
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, by Anne Bronte
Review The Guardian
A Moveable Feast, Ernest Hemingway
Reviews The Atlantic | The New York Times | The Guardian
Bird by Bird, by Anne Lamott
Reviews The Guardian | The Los Angeles Times
Anne Lamott The New York Times
What Howard is Reading
Interior Chinatown, by Charles Yu
Reviews The New York Times | The Washington Post | The LA Review of Books | BBC News | NPR | Asian Review of Books | TLS | New York Journal of Books
Twilight of Democracy – The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism, by Anne Applebaum
Reviews The Guardian | The Washington Post | The New York Times | The New York Times | The Times Literary Supplement | The Arts Fuse | The Irish Times
The New YorkTimes Book Review Podcast
Rodham, by Curtis Sittenfeld
Reviews The New Yorker | The New York Times | The Washington Post | The Herald (Scotland)
The Custom of the Country, by Edith Wharton
Reviews The New Yorker | The Guardian
The New Yorker Dearest Edith - The inner and outer voyages of Edith Wharton (1929)
The New Yorker A Rooting Interest Edith Wharton and the problem of sympathy.
Jonathan Franzen on Edith Wharton's New York
Edith Wharton The New Yorker | Wiki
The New York Times Edith Wharton Always Had Paris
The New York Times How Can We Read Edith Wharton Today?
Samuel Rutter's Undine Spragg’s Life in Objects
Charlotte’s Bookstores
Charlotte lives in Oxford in the UK, “a city with a very long literary tradition and with more bookshops than you could possibly ever visit.”
Blackwell’s Bookshop, Oxford, United Kingdom
