![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Plus, as a modern-day man, Fred, would not have forced Jane into the traditional female role had he accompanied her back to her time he would have allowed her to continue writing. Talent like hers can’t be dissolved by wedding vows. She was a highly intelligent, natural-born writer. Why couldn’t the Jane in this book have both love and her career? Why couldn’t her love interest, Fred, have traveled back to the past with her? The author’s suggestion that Jane would have somehow lost her ability to write upon marrying Fred is absurd. That is, Jane in Love’s Jane remains every bit as single as the Jane Austen from history. Instead of recreating the past to have Jane Austen take a different path, the author gives the Jane in this story the same fate as the real-life Jane. It’s a time-travel story where the past remains unchanged from reality. Oh, and there’s no happily-ever-after ending either. Jane in Love is like the movie Kate and Leopold – only instead of a time-traveling, handsome duke, it’s Jane Austen. ![]()
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