Western Classics Crossover: From the Start, I Arrive at Lowood and Meet Jane Eyre

Charlotte transmigrates into Pride and Prejudice as a supporting character: Charlotte Lucas, who has to ingratiate herself with that fool Collins in order to get married. From the start, she has a fever so bad she is nearly at death's door. Her own father finds her a nuisance, her mother nearly bleeds her to death with bloodletting, and their neighbor Mrs. Bennet comes by just to watch the commotion. After crawling back from the brink of death, the first thing she does is use the orphanage in Jane Eyre as a stepping stone: Lowood, a charity boarding school that costs just ten pounds a year and takes in children from poor families and orphans!

She leaves home at eight and meets the clergyman Mr. Bailey along the way, talking him into submission with a long rambling spiel. On her first day at school, she runs into the future headmistress, Jane Eyre: the little girl who has just been kicked into Lowood by her aunt and humiliated in public by Brocklehurst until she breaks down. Charlotte crouches in the corner and hands her a handkerchief. "Cry if you want, but don't trust men or God. Trust yourself."

Helen Burns enrolls at the same time, the poor girl who dies of illness in Jane Eyre. Charlotte studies the two of them and wonders: if she can save Helen, will history be rewritten?

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to actual people or events is purely coincidental. Please do not imitate.