Thoroughly Modern Charlotte: Romance, Third Millennium Style

"I am not romantic, you know; I never was." This statement made by Charlotte Lucas in 'Pride and Prejudice, ' expressed her opinion in one of the great disagreements between female friends in literature. Fast forward two hundred years-what choices do third millennium women who are 'not romantic' make with regard to marriage? Meet Charlotte Jane Otis, a 21st century renaissance woman. This modern miss is a native New Yorker, aspiring author, writer of Jane Austen fanfiction, gem stone aficio...