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      <title>Re: Free the Swindon One!</title>
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      <author>SkidMarks</author>
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      <title>Free the Swindon One!</title>
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      <author>Anonymous User</author>
      <description><![CDATA[I don't know whether anyone else has noticed this, but in Jeanette Winterson's Oranges are not the Only Fruit, the following passage appears.  Jeanette's mother is speaking to her:

'... Remember Jane Eyre and St. John Rivers.' A farway look came into her eye.

I did remember, but what my mother didn't know was that I now knew she had rewritten the ending.  Jane Eyre was her favourite non-bible book, and she read it to me over and over again, when I was very small.  I couldn't read it, but I knew where the pages turned.  A sort of nostalgic pilgrimage.  I found out, that dreadful day in a back corner of the library, that Jane doesn't marry St John at all, that she goes back to Mr Rochester...'

There has clearly been a miscarriage of justice.  Jeanette's mother was carrying out her nefarous deeds some time in the late sixties or early seventies.  Thursday Next is therefore is NOT guilty of a fiction infraction - she has restored Charlotte Bronte's original ending.  She must be freed from the gingham and The Faerie Queene immediately, and punishment meted out to the truly guilty....]]></description>
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