I’d like to start by answering a previous question. Many people ask me if it’s necessary to have read Jane Eyre or Wide Sargasso Sea before reading the novels in the Eyre Hall Trilogy, and I always tell them it isn’t necessary. It’s true that some of the characters in my novels originally appeared inContinue reading “Is Twelfth Night at Eyre Hall a Standalone #Novel or The Second Volume of a Trilogy?”
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Compassion in 19th Century England and Today
Today, 20th February, bloggers are taking part in the 1000 Voices for Compassion initiative, by blogging on the topic of compassion. Have a look at #1000Speak on twitter to read more about what other bloggers are writing about compassion in our lives today. I’ve been thinking about compassion over the last two centuries, and howContinue reading “Compassion in 19th Century England and Today”
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.”
Charlotte Bronte’s last love letter
‘To forbid me to write to you, to refuse to answer me, would be to tear from me from my only joy on earth, to deprive me of my last privilege _ a privilege I shall never consent willingly to surrender. Believe me, my master, in writing to me it is a good deed thatContinue reading “Charlotte Bronte’s last love letter”
Why I love romantic novels with Byronic Heroes
I love reading romantic novels with Byronic heroes, on occasions, because they are emotionally gratifying. The reader enters an ideal world with young, beautiful, rich, and powerful people, and it all ends well, which is satisfying after a hard day facing the real, sometimes boring, and often ugly world. There’s a likeable heroine who eventuallyContinue reading “Why I love romantic novels with Byronic Heroes”
Jenny, Lady Lilith and Celine Varens: Artistic Representation of Prostitution in Victorian England in Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre.
The first manuscript of Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s poem Jenny was buried with his wife, Elizabeth Eleanor Siddal , in Highgate Cemetery, in London, and remained in her grave, reportedly in Siddal’s red hair, until it was exhumed six years later and redrafted several times, before it was finally published in 1869. The poem is aContinue reading “Jenny, Lady Lilith and Celine Varens: Artistic Representation of Prostitution in Victorian England in Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre.”
Richard Mason: The Villain in Jane Eyre, Wide Sargasso Sea, and The Eyre Hall Series
Richard Mason is a fascinating character, created by Charlotte Bronte, for her novel Jane Eyre, and taken up a century later in the prequel written by Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea. Mason reappears in All Hallows at Eyre Hall, the sequel to both Jane Eyre and Wide Sargasso Sea, as one of the main characters. Continue reading “Richard Mason: The Villain in Jane Eyre, Wide Sargasso Sea, and The Eyre Hall Series”
Rereading Jane Eyre 