The autumn months of September, October and November witness major events in both Jane Eyre and Edward Rochester’s lives. Jane Eyre starts narrating her autobiography in autumn, specifically in November, ‘a drear November day’ she calls it. The novel has an oppressive and gloomy beginning in which she tells the reader about her loveless andContinue reading “Autumn in Jane Eyre”
Category Archives: Rereading Jane Eyre
#WednesdayWisdom ‘Dark and Stormy’ #1linewed #WWWBlogs #JaneEyre
If you feel as if you’re in a tiny fishing boat, alone in a vast, dark and stormy sea, and there’s nothing you can do to help yourself, look around, do something for someone else to make you feel better. And the best thing is it works. Your own troubles will seem less dark, you’llContinue reading “#WednesdayWisdom ‘Dark and Stormy’ #1linewed #WWWBlogs #JaneEyre”
#MothersDay ‘Jane Eyre’s Mother’ #MondayBlogs #CharlotteBronte
Jane Eyre is the most famous female, literary orphan in English literature, but what do we know about Jane Eyre’s mother? Surprisingly, for a character who doesn’t appear in the novel and is hardly mentioned, we know a great deal. We know her name and maiden surname, how and we she died, who and whyContinue reading “#MothersDay ‘Jane Eyre’s Mother’ #MondayBlogs #CharlotteBronte”
There was no possibility of taking a walk that (November) day.
November is a dark and ominous month in Jane Eyre’s life. Firstly, she is locked in the red room, as a child, at Gateshead. Secondly, she is lonely at Thornfield Hall, before Rochester’s arrival. Finally she is leading a solitary life in Morton, while her cousin, whom she doesn’t love, proposes to her. Gateshead TheContinue reading “There was no possibility of taking a walk that (November) day.”
Marriage and Fiction: Reader, I married him…
The Last chapter of Jane Eyre begins with these four words, “Reader, I married him.” As if with marriage the narrator wished to close the story, which started when Jane was a ten-year old orphan living unhappily with her cruel aunt, Mrs. Reed, and spiteful cousins; Georgina, Eliza, and John. She later went through theContinue reading “Marriage and Fiction: Reader, I married him…”
Guest Luccia Gray: Clothes in Jane Eyre’s Time.
I’d like to introduce you to fellow blogger, and writer, Noelle Granger, author of an entertaining, 5-Star detective novel, Death in a Red Canvas Chair, whose protagonist, sleuth, nurse, mother, and police consultant, Rhe Brewster, has become my favourite amateur detective. Look out for the second installment, Death in a Dacron Sail. The cover revealContinue reading “Guest Luccia Gray: Clothes in Jane Eyre’s Time.”
The Books Jane Eyre Read. Part One: At Gateshead Hall.
The orphaned Jane Eyre, was taken in by her uncle’s widowed wife, Mrs. Reed, and her spiteful cousins, John, Eliza, and Georgina. She suffered greatly at their home, saying of John, who was 14 and four years older than her, ‘He bullied and punished me; not two or three times in the week, nor onceContinue reading “The Books Jane Eyre Read. Part One: At Gateshead Hall.”
Always Rereading Jane Eyre
I was an impressionable teenager the first time I read Jane Eyre and I have reread it countless times since then. Every time I have reread it I have uncovered another angle or aspect in this superb manuscript. My first impression was one of awe and admiration due to the sheer power of the charactersContinue reading “Always Rereading Jane Eyre”
Rereading Jane Eyre 