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Lois McMaster Bujold:
Reading a Civil Campaign led me to become a devout Sayers, Austen, and Heyer fan, although I'm just now getting around to reading the Brontës. I just finished Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë and was struck by its similarity to Ekaterin and Miles' story. Was that work an influence?
Lois McMaster Bujold
I've actually read very little Bronte (just Jane Eyre) and not that one, so no, it wasn't an influence. Ekaterin and Miles's tale came from a wide range of seeds, including real life experiences that won't be available to people tracking literary sources. But Heyer, Sayers, Austen, and Shakespeare are also all in the work's family tree somewhere, to be sure, in the oblique way that such a piled-up compost heap of ideas work out.
Ta, L..
I've actually read very little Bronte (just Jane Eyre) and not that one, so no, it wasn't an influence. Ekaterin and Miles's tale came from a wide range of seeds, including real life experiences that won't be available to people tracking literary sources. But Heyer, Sayers, Austen, and Shakespeare are also all in the work's family tree somewhere, to be sure, in the oblique way that such a piled-up compost heap of ideas work out.
Ta, L..
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