query: which 1966 novel is a prequel to jane eyre

pos: Wide Sargasso Sea Wide Sargasso Sea Wide Sargasso Sea is a 1966 novel by Dominica-born British author Jean Rhys. The author lived in obscurity after her previous work, "Good Morning, Midnight", was published in 1939. She had published other novels between these works, but "Wide Sargasso Sea" caused a revival of interest in Rhys and her work and was her most commercially successful novel. It is a feminist and anti-colonial response to Charlotte Brontë's novel "Jane Eyre" (1847), describing the background to Mr Rochester's marriage from the point-of-view of his mad wife Antoinette Cosway, a Creole heiress. Antoinette Cosway is Rhys' version of

pos: Bertha Mason Bertha Mason Bertha Mason (full name Bertha Antoinetta Mason) is a fictional character in Charlotte Brontë's 1847 novel "Jane Eyre". She is described as the violently insane first wife of Edward Rochester, who moved her to Thornfield Hall and locked her in a room on the third floor. The 1966 parallel novel "Wide Sargasso Sea" by Jean Rhys serves as a prequel to Brontë's novel. It is the story of Mason (there called Antoinette Cosway) from the time of her youth in the Caribbean to her unhappy marriage and relocation to England. Rhys's novel re-imagines Brontë's devilish madwoman in the

pos: Jane Eyre The novel has also been the subject of a number of significant rewritings and reinterpretations, notably Jean Rhys's seminal 1966 novel "Wide Sargasso Sea". "Jane Eyre"'s initial reception was in stark contrast to its reputation today. In 1848, Elizabeth Rigby (later Elizabeth Eastlake), reviewing "Jane Eyre" in "The Quarterly Review", found it "pre-eminently an anti-Christian composition," declaring: "We do not hesitate to say that the tone of mind and thought which has overthrown authority and violated every code human and divine abroad, and fostered Chartism and rebellion at home, is the same which has also written "Jane Eyre."" Literary critic

pos: Wide Sargasso Sea (2006 film) as Antoinette Cosway and Rafe Spall as Rochester. Wide Sargasso Sea (2006 film) Wide Sargasso Sea is a British television adaptation of Jean Rhys's 1966 novel of the same name. Produced by Kudos Film & Television for BBC Wales, the one-off 90-minute drama was first broadcast on digital television channel BBC Four on 9 October 2006. It was repeated on BBC One on Sunday, 22 October 2006, the week following the conclusion of BBC One's adaptation of "Jane Eyre", to which "Wide Sargasso Sea" is a prequel. The adaptation was scripted by playwright Stephen Greenhorn, produced by Elwen Rowlands and

pos: Wide Sargasso Sea (2006 film) Wide Sargasso Sea (2006 film) Wide Sargasso Sea is a British television adaptation of Jean Rhys's 1966 novel of the same name. Produced by Kudos Film & Television for BBC Wales, the one-off 90-minute drama was first broadcast on digital television channel BBC Four on 9 October 2006. It was repeated on BBC One on Sunday, 22 October 2006, the week following the conclusion of BBC One's adaptation of "Jane Eyre", to which "Wide Sargasso Sea" is a prequel. The adaptation was scripted by playwright Stephen Greenhorn, produced by Elwen Rowlands and directed by Brendan Maher. It starred Rebecca Hall

pos: Jean Rhys blue plaque. Rhys's collected papers and ephemera are housed in the University of Tulsa's McFarlin Library. Jean Rhys Jean Rhys, (; born Ella Gwendolyn Rees Williams (24 August 1890 – 14 May 1979), was a mid-20th-century novelist who was born and grew up in the Caribbean island of Dominica. From the age of 16, she was mainly resident in England, where she was sent for her education. She is best known for her novel "Wide Sargasso Sea" (1966), written as a prequel to Charlotte Brontë's "Jane Eyre". In 1978 she was awarded the Order of the British Empire for her

pos: Jean Rhys Jean Rhys Jean Rhys, (; born Ella Gwendolyn Rees Williams (24 August 1890 – 14 May 1979), was a mid-20th-century novelist who was born and grew up in the Caribbean island of Dominica. From the age of 16, she was mainly resident in England, where she was sent for her education. She is best known for her novel "Wide Sargasso Sea" (1966), written as a prequel to Charlotte Brontë's "Jane Eyre". In 1978 she was awarded the Order of the British Empire for her writing. Rhys was born in Roseau, the capital of Dominica, an island in the British West

pos: Spanish Town to four lines: The station opened in 1845 and closed in October 1992 when all passenger traffic on Jamaica's railways abruptly ceased. The location has also been referenced by Charlotte Bronte in her 1847 novel Jane Eyre, in which Mr Rochester's wife, Bertha Mason had originated from. This location and the characterisation of Bertha was further explored by Jean Rhys in her 1966 retelling of Jane Eyre, Wide Sargasso Sea. Spanish Town Spanish Town is the capital and the largest town in the parish of St. Catherine in the historic county of Middlesex, Jamaica. It was the Spanish and British

pos: Wide Sargasso Sea its disintegration or even, indeed, its conflagration." Wide Sargasso Sea Wide Sargasso Sea is a 1966 novel by Dominica-born British author Jean Rhys. The author lived in obscurity after her previous work, "Good Morning, Midnight", was published in 1939. She had published other novels between these works, but "Wide Sargasso Sea" caused a revival of interest in Rhys and her work and was her most commercially successful novel. It is a feminist and anti-colonial response to Charlotte Brontë's novel "Jane Eyre" (1847), describing the background to Mr Rochester's marriage from the point-of-view of his mad wife Antoinette Cosway, a Creole

pos: Wide Sargasso Sea (1993 film) Wide Sargasso Sea (1993 film) Wide Sargasso Sea is a 1993 Australian film adaptation of Jean Rhys's 1966 novel of the same name, directed by John Duigan and starring Karina Lombard and Nathaniel Parker. The novel and film explore Jean Rhys's account of the West Indian Creole heiress, here called Antoinette Cosway, married by an Englishman similar to the character "Mr. Rochester", who becomes his "madwoman in the attic" featured in the novel "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Bronte. For a full-length summary see: plot summary of "Wide Sargasso Sea". Fine Line Features released the film for the United States market.

pos: Wide Sargasso Sea fulfill the vision. Waking from her dream she escapes her room, and sets the fire. Since the late 20th century, critics have considered "Wide Sargasso Sea" as a postcolonial response to "Jane Eyre". Rhys uses multiple voices (Antoinette's, her husband's, and Grace Poole's) to tell the story, and intertwines her novel's plot with that of "Jane Eyre". In addition, Rhys makes a postcolonial argument when she ties Antoinette's husband's eventual rejection of Antoinette to her Creole heritage (a rejection shown to be critical to Antoinette's descent into madness). The novel is also considered a feminist work, as it deals with

pos: Nathaniel Parker later, Parker played Edward Rochester in John Duigan's 1993 film adaptation of Jean Rhys' "Wide Sargasso Sea". Reviewing this 'prequel' to "Jane Eyre", Vincent Canby said in his review that Parker: "is exceptionally good in a difficult, shadowy role". From 2001 to 2007, Parker played the titular character in the long-running BBC1 crime series "The Inspector Lynley Mysteries", perhaps his best-known role. His co-star was Sharon Small as his assistant, Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers. When the series premiered on PBS in 2002, "The Wall Street Journal" wrote that it was "fully worthy of the "Mystery!" label." During that time he

pos: Sargasso Sea seaweed. Fred Andrew's mystery novel, "Plato's Pond", features the fictitious land of Gaia, which is a continent in the middle of the Sargasso Sea. Perhaps the most famous novel featuring its name is Jean Rhys's "Wide Sargasso Sea," a rewriting of Charlotte Brontë's "Jane Eyre" from Bertha Mason's point of view. More recently, the Sea is referenced in the refrain of Andrew Bird's April, 2016 song "Left Handed Kisses" (featuring singer Fiona Apple), in which he questions: "How did I ever find you / Drifting gently through the gyre / Of the great Sargasso sea, Atlantic Ocean / Got me

neg: The Eyre Affair he stages a theft of the original manuscript of "Jane Eyre", and kidnaps Jane for another ransom demand. This causes the text of all copies of the "Jane Eyre" novel to abruptly end at the moment of Jane's kidnapping, roughly halfway through the book. Next and Jack Schitt independently trace Hades to Wales. She rescues Mycroft and the Prose Portal, and returns Jane to the novel. However, she finds Aunt Polly stuck in one of Wordsworth's poems, and learns that Hades has gone into the original text of "Jane Eyre" carrying the scrap of paper on which Polly is imprisoned.

neg: Jane Eyre (2006 miniseries) Jane Eyre (2006 miniseries) Jane Eyre is a 2006 television adaptation of Charlotte Brontë's 1847 novel of the same name. The story, which has been the subject of numerous television and film adaptations, is based on the life of the orphaned title character. This four-part BBC television drama serial adaptation was broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC One. The mini-series is generally considered a successful adaptation, garnering critical acclaim and a number of prestigious nominations from various award bodies. In this version of Charlotte Brontë's novel, Jane Eyre (Georgie Henley) is raised as a poor relation in the household

neg: Jane Eyre Jane Eyre Jane Eyre (originally published as Jane Eyre: An Autobiography) is a novel by English writer Charlotte Brontë, published under the pen name "Currer Bell", on 16 October 1847, by Smith, Elder & Co. of London. The first American edition was published the following year by Harper & Brothers of New York. Arguably a "Bildungsroman", "Jane Eyre" follows the experiences of its eponymous heroine, including her growth to adulthood and her love for Mr. Rochester, the brooding master of Thornfield Hall. The novel revolutionised prose fiction in that the focus on Jane's moral and spiritual development is told through

neg: Jane Eyre (1996 film) Jane Eyre (1996 film) Jane Eyre is a 1996 American, British, French and Italian romantic epic and dramatic feature film adaptation of Charlotte Brontë's 1847 novel "Jane Eyre". This Hollywood version, directed by Franco Zeffirelli, is similar to the original novel, although it compresses and eliminates most of the plot in the last quarter of the book (the running away, the trials and tribulations, new found relations, and new job) to condense it into a 2-hour movie. Jane Eyre (portrayed as the orphan child by Anna Paquin and as an adult by Charlotte Gainsbourg) is the plain, impoverished young woman

neg: Jane Eyre Jerome Beaty felt that the close first person perspective leaves the reader "too uncritically accepting of her worldview", and often leads reading and conversation about the novel towards supporting Jane, regardless of how irregular her ideas or perspectives are. In 2003, the novel was ranked number 10 in the BBC's survey The Big Read. Jane Eyre Jane Eyre (originally published as Jane Eyre: An Autobiography) is a novel by English writer Charlotte Brontë, published under the pen name "Currer Bell", on 16 October 1847, by Smith, Elder & Co. of London. The first American edition was published the following year

neg: Jane Eyre (1973 miniseries) Jane Eyre (1973 miniseries) Charlotte Brontë's novel Jane Eyre (1847) has been the subject of numerous television and film adaptations. This 1973 four-hour literary version was a BBC television drama serial. It was directed by Joan Craft and starred Sorcha Cusack and Michael Jayston. In this version of Charlotte Brontë's great novel, Jane Eyre (Sorcha Cusack) is an independent and strong-minded young woman who is hired by Mr. Rochester (Michael Jayston) to work as a governess. What she does not realize is that she must share the estate (and ultimately Mr. Rochester) with his wife, Bertha (Brenda Kempner), who is,

neg: Jane Eyre (1934 film) not uninteresting as a curio." Jane Eyre (1934 film) Jane Eyre is a 1934 American romantic drama film directed by Christy Cabanne, starring Virginia Bruce and Colin Clive. It is based on the 1847 novel "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë, and is the first adaptation to use sound. A Victorian orphan secures a position as governess at Thornfield Hall. She falls in love with her employer. Production began 17 May 1934 at General Service Studios. Critic Leonard Maltin gave the film 2 stars (out of four), describing it as a "[t]hin version of the oft-filmed Bronte novel, produced by Monogram,

neg: Jane Eyre (1934 film) Jane Eyre (1934 film) Jane Eyre is a 1934 American romantic drama film directed by Christy Cabanne, starring Virginia Bruce and Colin Clive. It is based on the 1847 novel "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë, and is the first adaptation to use sound. A Victorian orphan secures a position as governess at Thornfield Hall. She falls in love with her employer. Production began 17 May 1934 at General Service Studios. Critic Leonard Maltin gave the film 2 stars (out of four), describing it as a "[t]hin version of the oft-filmed Bronte novel, produced by Monogram, of all studios[...] Still, it's

neg: Jane Eyre (1973 miniseries) of Rochester, the imperious, troubled master whose service she enters and whose heart she captures." The DVD for this series is available, distributed by Acorn Media UK. Jane Eyre (1973 miniseries) Charlotte Brontë's novel Jane Eyre (1847) has been the subject of numerous television and film adaptations. This 1973 four-hour literary version was a BBC television drama serial. It was directed by Joan Craft and starred Sorcha Cusack and Michael Jayston. In this version of Charlotte Brontë's great novel, Jane Eyre (Sorcha Cusack) is an independent and strong-minded young woman who is hired by Mr. Rochester (Michael Jayston) to work

neg: Jane Eyre (1996 film) for "The Princess Bride". The film holds a positive rating of 74% at Rotten Tomatoes based on 27 reviews. "The New York Times" called Hurt "embarrassingly miscast as a Rochester more nearly a mild eccentric than a brooding, Byronic type", but conceded that the film "has its moments". Jane Eyre (1996 film) Jane Eyre is a 1996 American, British, French and Italian romantic epic and dramatic feature film adaptation of Charlotte Brontë's 1847 novel "Jane Eyre". This Hollywood version, directed by Franco Zeffirelli, is similar to the original novel, although it compresses and eliminates most of the plot in the

neg: Jane Eyre (1970 film) Jane Eyre (1970 film) Jane Eyre is a 1970 British television film directed by Delbert Mann starring George C. Scott and Susannah York. It is based on the 1847 novel "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë. The film had its theatrical debut in the United Kingdom in 1970 and was released on television in the United States in 1971. Jane Eyre is an orphan, who is raised by her abusive Aunt and cousins until she is sent to the cruel school institution of Lowood School. On leaving, she takes a position as governess to a girl named Adele at Thornfield Hall.

neg: Jane Eyre (character) States Constitution including its concept of Person, as embodied in drafting done by John Dickinson, who was of this cultural and political ancestry and represented the Delaware Valley at the U.S. Constitutional Convention. In the 2011 film adaptation of the novel, Judi Dench, who comes from this cultural and religious background, played the character of Mrs. Alice Fairfax. Jane Eyre (character) Jane Eyre is the fictional heroine of Charlotte Brontë's 1847 novel of the same name. Jane, an orphan, is employed as a governess, and becomes romantically involved with her employer, the mysterious and moody Edward Rochester. Jane is noted

neg: The Country Life (novel) The Country Life (novel) The Country Life is a comedic novel by Rachel Cusk, first published in 1997, which draws on Stella Gibbons' "Cold Comfort Farm" and Charlotte Brontë's "Jane Eyre". It won a 1998 Somerset Maugham Award. The novel is a comedy that draws on both "Cold Comfort Farm" by Stella Gibbons and "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë. Stella Benson, the first-person narrator, abruptly abandons her life in London to take a position as carer to Martin, the wheelchair-bound teenage son of the wealthy and eccentric Madden family, in a farm near a small village in rural Sussex. The

neg: The Country Life (novel) "The Country Life" won a 1998 Somerset Maugham Award, and was selected as one of the Notable Books for Adults of 2000 by the American Library Association. The Country Life (novel) The Country Life is a comedic novel by Rachel Cusk, first published in 1997, which draws on Stella Gibbons' "Cold Comfort Farm" and Charlotte Brontë's "Jane Eyre". It won a 1998 Somerset Maugham Award. The novel is a comedy that draws on both "Cold Comfort Farm" by Stella Gibbons and "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë. Stella Benson, the first-person narrator, abruptly abandons her life in London to take a

neg: Jane Eyre (character) Jane Eyre (character) Jane Eyre is the fictional heroine of Charlotte Brontë's 1847 novel of the same name. Jane, an orphan, is employed as a governess, and becomes romantically involved with her employer, the mysterious and moody Edward Rochester. Jane is noted for her strong mindedness and individualism, and is an influential character in literature, especially romantic and feminist writing. One morning when Jane is out for a walk, she meets a mysterious man when his horse slips and he falls – this is Mr. Rochester. Jane and Rochester are immediately interested in each other. She is fascinated by his

neg: Jane Eyre (2011 film) emotional detail." Richard Corliss of "Time" named Mia Wasikowska's performance one of the Top 10 Movie Performances of 2011. Shanti Nilayam ("Peaceful House") is a 1969 Indian Tamil-language film, produced and directed by G. S. Mani. According to film critic Randor Guy, "Shanti Nilayam", though widely believed to have been adapted from "The Sound of Music", was actually based on Charlotte Bronte's novel "Jane Eyre". Jane Eyre (2011 film) Jane Eyre is a 2011 British romantic drama film directed by Cary Fukunaga and starring Mia Wasikowska and Michael Fassbender. The screenplay is written by Moira Buffini based on Charlotte Brontë's

neg: Jane Eyre (1910 film) inexperience the company's best work in the fall from the horse having been depicted as instead as a clumsy dismount. The second review was much more positive, it praised the adaptation and acting, but found the photography to not be of the same standard as its previous work. The film is presumed lost. Jane Eyre (1910 film) Jane Eyre is a 1910 American silent short classic drama produced by the Thanhouser Film Corporation. Adapted from Charlotte Brontë's 1847 novel, "Jane Eyre", the film mirrors the events and plot of the original book. The writer of the scenario is unknown, but

neg: Jane Eyre (1910 film) Jane Eyre (1910 film) Jane Eyre is a 1910 American silent short classic drama produced by the Thanhouser Film Corporation. Adapted from Charlotte Brontë's 1847 novel, "Jane Eyre", the film mirrors the events and plot of the original book. The writer of the scenario is unknown, but Lloyd Lonergan probably adapted the work. The film's director is often and erroneously claimed to be Theodore Marston, but Barry O'Neil or Lloyd B. Carleton are possible candidates. The cast of the film was credited, an act rare and unusual in the era. This was the first American, first English language and second

neg: A History of British Birds Thus the ploughboy in the distant field pulls our gaze past the yellow wagtail ..." The "History" is repeatedly mentioned in Charlotte Brontë's 1847 novel "Jane Eyre". John Reed throws the "History of British Birds" at Jane when she is ten; Jane uses the book as a place to which to escape, away from the painful Reed household; and Jane also bases her artwork on Bewick's illustrations. Jane and Mr Rochester use bird names for each other, including linnet, dove, skylark, eagle, and falcon. Brontë has Jane Eyre explain and quote Bewick: I returned to my book--Bewick's History of British

neg: Jane Eyre (1943 film) hang around her dressing room ogling her, at the age of eleven. He was frightening enough with grown women...!" "Jane Eyre" premiered in New York City February 4, 1944, and in Los Angeles six days later, February 10, 1944. Although the film had its British premiere in late December 1943, it bears a 1944 U.S. copyright in the screen credits and it is often considered a 1944 picture. The film is recognized by American Film Institute in these lists: Streaming audio Jane Eyre (1943 film) Jane Eyre is an American film adaptation of Charlotte Brontë's 1847 novel of the same

neg: Villette (novel) Woolf "The Daily Telegraph"'s, Lucy Hughes-Hallett argues that "Villette" is greater than Brontë's most famous work "Jane Eyre." She states that the novel is "an astonishing piece of writing, a book in which phantasmagorical set pieces alternate with passages of minute psychological exploration, and in which Brontë’s marvellously flexible prose veers between sardonic wit and stream-of-consciousness, in which the syntax bends and flows and threatens to dissolve completely in the heat of madness, drug-induced hallucination and desperate desire.". Claire Fallon of "The Huffington Post" notes that "Villette" shares many themes with Brontë's previous works such as "Jane Eyre" yet highlights

neg: Jane Eyre (2006 miniseries) off a richness American TV projects rarely attempt. The appeal stretches beyond style. The lean scripting (even at four hours the program can't cover every one of Brontë's plot details), the expeditious pacing and the interaction among the actors are first-class, if not as brilliant as the more ambitious and magnificent "Bleak House" from last season." Jane Eyre (2006 miniseries) Jane Eyre is a 2006 television adaptation of Charlotte Brontë's 1847 novel of the same name. The story, which has been the subject of numerous television and film adaptations, is based on the life of the orphaned title character. This

neg: Jane Eyre (2011 film) Jane Eyre (2011 film) Jane Eyre is a 2011 British romantic drama film directed by Cary Fukunaga and starring Mia Wasikowska and Michael Fassbender. The screenplay is written by Moira Buffini based on Charlotte Brontë's 1847 novel of the same name, a classic of the Gothic, bildungsroman, and romance genres. The film was released on 11 March 2011 in the United States and 9 September in Great Britain and Ireland. The film's costume design, lead by Michael O'Connor, was nominated for an Academy Award. The film begins with Jane Eyre fleeing Thornfield Hall in the middle of the night and

neg: Jane Eyre (1970 film) of the film becoming more widely recited than the original English. The dubbed version was also released on audio cassette tape, and the cassette version was more popular than the dubbed film. John Williams composed the score, recording it at Anvil Studios, Denham, outside London. Jane Eyre (1970 film) Jane Eyre is a 1970 British television film directed by Delbert Mann starring George C. Scott and Susannah York. It is based on the 1847 novel "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë. The film had its theatrical debut in the United Kingdom in 1970 and was released on television in the United

neg: Jane Eyre (1943 film) Jane Eyre (1943 film) Jane Eyre is an American film adaptation of Charlotte Brontë's 1847 novel of the same name, released by 20th Century Fox. It was directed by Robert Stevenson and produced by Kenneth Macgowan and Orson Welles, both uncredited. The film stars Welles and Joan Fontaine. Elizabeth Taylor made an early, uncredited appearance as Helen Burns. The screenplay was written by John Houseman, Aldous Huxley and director Robert Stevenson. The music score was by Bernard Herrmann and the cinematography by George Barnes. Orphaned, unloved, and unwanted ten-year-old Jane Eyre (Peggy Ann Garner) lives with her cruel, selfish, uncaring

neg: Jane Eyre death in 1818; one of Cunliffe's relatives was named Elizabeth Eyre (née Cunliffe). The sequence in which Mr. Rochester's wife sets fire to the bed curtains was prepared in an August 1830 homemade publication of Brontë's "The Young Men's Magazine, Number 2". Charlotte Brontë began composing "Jane Eyre" in Manchester, and she likely envisioned Manchester Cathedral churchyard as the burial place for Jane's parents and the birthplace of Jane herself. The novel has been adapted into a number of other forms, including theatre, film, television - and at least two full-length operas, by John Joubert (1987–97) and Michael Berkeley (2000).

neg: Jane Eyre (1910 film) Jane. When next Jane's haughty aunt and cousins call upon Lord Rochester, they are just in time to be introduced to his bride, who is none other than the despised Jane Eyre." The scenario for the film was adapted from Charlotte Brontë's 1847 novel "Jane Eyre". Brontë's work was modeled after her own life. The book was considered a classic for many decades before the Thanhouser adaptation. The film adaptation was not the first, the earliest known adaption being a 1909 Italian silent film. The writer of the scenario is unknown, but it may have been Lloyd Lonergan. Lonergan was

neg: Jane Eyre (2006 miniseries) sequence as Rochester hires a gypsy rather than portraying one himself. Rochester also uses an ouija board as a supplement to this game, a scene which was written specifically for the screenplay. For a full-length summary of Charlotte Brontë's novel, see "Jane Eyre" plot summary. The worldwide premiere outside of the United Kingdom was in Spain. The production appeared on Antena 3 on 1 January 2007 as a four-hour program and had an audience of 2,056,000 or some 17.7% of the viewing audience. "Jane Eyre" was shown on "Masterpiece Theatre" on most PBS stations compressed into two hours each over

neg: Villette (novel) the dichotomy between each novel's protagonists. "V"illette" bears a certain Brontëan resemblance to "Jane Eyre" -- gothic mysticism, spiritual intensity, bursts of passionate lyricism, a plain heroine making her way in an unfriendly world -- but is in many other ways its inverse. "Jane Eyre" works in sharp black and white, while "Villette" works in psychological and even factual grey areas. Where Jane’s specialness is stipulated, despite her poverty and plain looks, the heroine of Villette, Lucy Snowe, is an unassuming figure who spends the majority of the novel as a quiet observer. Jane insists on her own agency, while

neg: The Thirteenth Tale the ghost of Angelfield House, loses her most beloved person, the twin thought to be Emmeline her half sister. Reconciliation Is a theme that was present in the last part of the book, when Margaret meets her missing half, her twin, and feels complete. Vida Winter was also re-united with her half sister in death at the end of the book. Jane Eyre Jane Eyre is frequently mentioned in the novel. Lea speculates about the connections between that novel and the lives of the Marches. Hester, like Jane was a governess at a manor, employed by a wealthy master. Hester,

neg: Anne Brontë rounds of London publishers. After a number of rejections, Emily's "Wuthering Heights" and Anne's "Agnes Grey" were accepted by the publisher Thomas Cautley Newby, but Charlotte's novel was rejected by every publisher to whom it was sent. Charlotte was not long in completing her second novel, "Jane Eyre", which was immediately accepted by Smith, Elder & Co. and became the first of the sisters' novels to appear in print. While Anne and Emily's novels 'lingered in the press', "Jane Eyre" was an immediate and resounding success. Anne and Emily were obliged to pay fifty pounds to help meet their publishing

neg: Jane Eyre (1910 film) streamlined version of "Jane Eyre" follows the overall themes of the original novel. The condensed events were summarized and the official synopsis was published in "The Moving Picture World". It states, "Jane Eyre is left an orphan and penniless at the age of 14. She is adopted by her uncle, who has ample means of providing for her, and who also loves her dearly. Her uncle's kin, however, consider her adoption as an intrusion, do all in their power to prevent her becoming a member of the family. But her uncle insists on her remaining, and during his lifetime she

neg: Jane Eyre (musical) Lowood Institution, is not in the stage musical. The "Talkin Broadway" reviewer wrote: "A successful dramatic interpretation of the ever-popular novel by Charlotte Bronte, Jane is also blessed with a luxuriant score, haunting and memorable music, and crisp, intelligent lyrics which speak from the very heart of this tragic and romantic story. John Caird, who wrote the book, and Paul Gordon, who wrote the music and lyrics, have come up with a major contender come Spring’s award time...With Jane Eyre, Marla Schaffel joins that small group of great stars of the American musical theatre - Angela Lansbury, Julie Andrews, and

neg: Desire a sense that if they felt the need for the type of product in question, the advertised product is what would quench their desire. The theme of desire is at the core of the romance novel. Novels which are based around the theme of desire, which can range from a long aching feeling to an unstoppable torrent, include "Madame Bovary" by Gustave Flaubert; "Love in the Time of Cholera" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez; "Lolita" by Vladimir Nabokov; "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë, and "Dracula" by Bram Stoker. Brontë's characterization of Jane Eyre depicts her as torn by an inner conflict

neg: Jane Eyre (musical) Bernadette Peters - who, lady-like to the core, can effortlessly carry a major musical on their delicate shoulders and enchant an audience with a smile." Jane Eyre (musical) Jane Eyre is a musical drama with music and lyrics by composer-lyricist Paul Gordon and a book by John Caird, based on the novel by Charlotte Brontë. The musical premiered on Broadway in 2000. A workshop of the musical was performed at Manhattan Theatre Club in 1995. The musical had a work-in-progress workshop production in Wichita, Kansas in Autumn 1995 at the Centre Theatre. Minor roles and the large ensemble of schoolgirls

neg: The Thirteenth Tale and the last one to burn. Aurelius is found with a torn page from Jane Eyre. The significance of the book in the novel is vital and is a leitmotif; often recurring. It is obvious that Diane Setterfield is paying homage to Jane Eyre and its sisterhood of novels. Isolation Isolation: From the start of the novel, we know that Margaret is an isolated child. She has "no siblings" and her relationship with her mother isn't a strong and loving one. Margaret's retreat from the world would have left her feeling unbearably isolated if she did not have the indirect

neg: Jane Eyre she falls in love with her mysterious employer, Edward Rochester; her time with the Rivers family, during which her earnest but cold clergyman cousin, St. John Rivers, proposes to her; and ultimately her reunion with, and marriage to, her beloved Rochester. Throughout these sections, the novel provides perspectives on a number of important social issues and ideas, many of which are critical of the status quo. Jane Eyre, aged 10, lives with her maternal uncle's family, the Reeds, as a result of her uncle's dying wish. It is several years after her parents died of typhus. Mr. Reed, Jane's uncle,

neg: Breaking Dawn ending for the couples, as in "The Merchant of Venice". Originally it was the novel "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë that Alice tore a page from, but "Jane Eyre" had nothing to do with the story, so Meyer changed it. The idea of imprinting, which existed in "Forever Dawn", was inspired by "A Midsummer Night's Dream". Meyer described it as "the magic of setting things right—which doesn't happen in the real world, which is absolutely fantasy", and decided to introduce it earlier–in "Eclipse"–so she wouldn't have to explain it later. Meyer described the cover as "extremely meaningful" and said that

neg: Jane Eyre (musical) Jane Eyre (musical) Jane Eyre is a musical drama with music and lyrics by composer-lyricist Paul Gordon and a book by John Caird, based on the novel by Charlotte Brontë. The musical premiered on Broadway in 2000. A workshop of the musical was performed at Manhattan Theatre Club in 1995. The musical had a work-in-progress workshop production in Wichita, Kansas in Autumn 1995 at the Centre Theatre. Minor roles and the large ensemble of schoolgirls for the scenes at Brocklehurst's school were cast locally, while the directors brought several members of the principal cast from New York. The musical was

neg: The Thirteenth Tale crumpled and folded over each other. The words on the pages indicate the pages are from Charlotte Brontë’s "Jane Eyre", a book which is known to have influenced some characters in the novel, such as Margaret Lea and Vida Winter. "Jane Eyre" provides a link among all these characters, and the ripped pages indicate the ending of all their stories. Death Death is explored throughout the story; from the beginning to the end. In the very beginning, in Margaret's story, Margaret's conjoined twin sister died. In Vida Winter's story, Isabelle's mother died at childbirth, leaving her father, George, depressed. He

neg: The Eyre Affair The Eyre Affair The Eyre Affair is the debut novel by English author Jasper Fforde, published by Hodder and Stoughton in 2001. It takes place in an alternative 1985, where literary detective Thursday Next pursues a master criminal through the world of Charlotte Brontë's "Jane Eyre". Fforde had received 76 rejections for earlier works before being accepted by a publisher. Critical reception of this novel was generally positive, remarking on its originality. In a parallel universe, England and Imperial Russia have fought the Crimean War for more than a century; England still has a parliamentary government, although heavily influenced by

neg: Elizabeth Eastlake history in England, both as critic and as translator (Waagen and Kugler). Sometimes, she collaborated with her husband, and she wrote a memoir of him after his death in 1865. Italian art also absorbed her attention. Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Titian, Raphael and Dürer were the subjects of her "Five Great Painters" (1883), published ten years before she died. In the 20th century, she was remembered mostly for her scathing review of "Jane Eyre", of which she strongly disapproved. She disputed the morality of the novel, writing that ‘the popularity of Jane Eyre is a proof how deeply the love

neg: Jane Eyre (2006 miniseries) the novel. The middle of the novel is instead developed and a few scenes from the novel are compressed or moved to different times and places in the narrative. The scenes surrounding Jane's flight from Thornfield until her regaining of health are treated as a brief flashback sequence: Many pages of text were condensed into a passage of a few minutes' length. Additional scenes were created for the screenplay which underscore the passionate natures of Jane and Rochester (a thematic point implied but not spelled out in the novel). One of the more significant plot changes occurs during the gypsy

neg: Hero's journey Lewis, and J. R. R. Tolkien, Seamus Heaney and Stephen King, among many others. Charlotte Brontë's character Jane Eyre is an important figure in illustrating heroines and their place within the Hero's Journey. Charlotte Brontë sought to craft a unique female character that the term "Heroine" could fully encompass. "Jane Eyre" is a "Bildungsroman", a coming-of-age story common in Victorian fiction, also referred to as an apprenticeship novel, that show moral and psychological development of the protagonist as they grow into adults. Jane being a Middle-class Victorian woman would face entirely different obstacles and conflict than her male counterparts of

neg: Wuthering Heights (1951 opera) Brontë's novel of the same name. Fletcher also interpolated some text from the second part of the novel, and from some unrelated poems by Emily Brontë (such as "I have been wandering through the Green Woods"). By the time the work was finished, Fletcher and Herrmann had divorced and he had married her cousin Lucy. Although the work is largely unknown, Lucille Fletcher said it was "perhaps the closest to his talent and heart". Herrmann started work on the opera in April 1943, while composing the film score for "Jane Eyre" (an adaptation of "Jane Eyre" by Emily Brontë's sister

neg: Jane Eyre (2006 miniseries) and vulnerable, and also from Ruth Wilson as a quizzical, strong and un-neurotic Jane." Barry Garron in "The Hollywood Reporter" suggests that, "the new adaptation written by Sandy Welch and directed by Susanna White doesn't add new colors to Bronte's romantic novel. Rather, it brings out all the shades and hues of the original portrait, restoring it to its full glory." Dennis Moore of "USA Today", argued that, "The story is splendidly retold [...] From sweeping shots of the English countryside through all seasons to intimate scenes in the recesses of the manor house, this adaptation of "Jane Eyre" shows

neg: Woman and Wife Woman and Wife Woman and Wife is a 1918 American silent drama film directed by Edward Jose and starring Alice Brady. It is based on the novel "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Bronte. The Select Pictures Corporation produced and distributed the film. The film was also known as "The Lifted Cross". The film survives in an incomplete state at the BFI National Film and Television Archive. As described in a film magazine, Jane Eyre (Brady) is sent to an orphan's home by her domineering aunt, and is expelled from that institution after she slaps the superintendent's face for trying to embrace

neg: Mistress (lover) Eyre" (1848) presents impassioned arguments on both sides of this question, as Rochester, unable to be free of his insane wife, tries to persuade Jane Eyre to live with him, which she resists. Margaret Mitchell's novel "Gone with the Wind" (1936) also implies that Scarlett O'Hara should be the mistress of Rhett Butler, which was thought of as prostitution by O'Hara as she said she would be no better than Belle Watling. Mistress (lover) A mistress is a relatively long-term female lover and companion who is not married to her partner, especially when her partner is married to someone else.

neg: Jane Eyre an intimate, first-person narrative, where actions and events are coloured by a psychological intensity. Charlotte Brontë has been called the 'first historian of the private consciousness' and the literary ancestor of writers like Proust and Joyce. The book contains elements of social criticism, with a strong sense of Christian morality at its core and is considered by many to be ahead of its time because of Jane's individualistic character and how the novel approaches the topics of class, sexuality, religion and feminism. "Jane Eyre" is divided into 38 chapters. It was originally published in three volumes in the 19th century,

neg: Villette (novel) Villette (novel) Villette is an 1853 novel written by English author Charlotte Brontë. After an unspecified family disaster, the protagonist Lucy Snowe travels from her native England to the fictional French-speaking city of Villette to teach at a girls' school, where she is drawn into adventure and romance. "Villette" was Charlotte Brontë's third and last novel; it was preceded by "The Professor" (her posthumously published first novel, of which "Villette" is a reworking), "Jane Eyre", and "Shirley". In 1842 Charlotte Brontë, at the age of 26, travelled to Brussels, Belgium, with her sister Emily. There they enrolled in a "pensionnat"

neg: Victorian literature characters, he also tended to depict a more middle class society than Dickens did. He is best known for his novel "Vanity Fair" (1848), subtitled "A Novel without a Hero", which is an example of a form popular in Victorian literature: a historical novel in which recent history is depicted. Anne, Charlotte and Emily Brontë produced notable works of the period, although these were not immediately appreciated by Victorian critics. "Wuthering Heights" (1847), Emily's only work, is an example of Gothic Romanticism from a woman's point of view, which examines class, myth, and gender. "Jane Eyre" (1847), by her sister

neg: La Curée Roger Vadim updated the setting to modern-day Paris in the 1966 film "La Curée", released in English-speaking markets as "The Game Is Over". The film starred Jane Fonda, Michel Piccoli and Peter McEnery. La Curée La Curée (1871–72; English: "The Kill") is the 2nd novel in Émile Zola's 20-volume series Les Rougon-Macquart. It deals with property speculation and the lives of the extremely wealthy Nouveau riche of the Second French Empire, against the backdrop of Baron Haussmann's reconstruction of Paris in the 1850s and 1860s. Vastly different from its predecessor and prequel "La Fortune des Rougon", "La Curée" - the

neg: Jane Eyre had died; there, she faints from panic after she thinks she has seen his ghost. The red room is significant because it lays the grounds for the "ambiguous relationship between parents and children" which we see play out in all of Jane's future relationships with male figures throughout the novel. She is subsequently attended to by the kindly apothecary Mr. Lloyd to whom Jane reveals how unhappy she is living at Gateshead Hall. He recommends to Mrs. Reed that Jane should be sent to school, an idea Mrs. Reed happily supports. Mrs. Reed then enlists the aid of the harsh

neg: Mia Wasikowska directed by Nicolas Pesce and based on Ryū Murakami's 1994 novel of the same name. In her spare time, Wasikowska is an avid photographer, often chronicling her travels and capturing images of her film sets with a Rolleiflex camera. During production of "Jane Eyre," she had a secret pocket sewn into one of her costumes in order to conceal a smaller digital camera that she used between takes. One of her on-set images, featuring Fukunaga and "Jane Eyre" co-star Jamie Bell, was selected as a finalist in the 2011 National Photographic Portrait Prize hosted by Australia's National Portrait Gallery on

neg: Jane Eyre to Gateshead and remains there for a month, attending to her dying aunt. Mrs. Reed confesses to Jane that she wronged her, giving Jane a letter from Jane's paternal uncle, Mr. John Eyre, in which he asks for her to live with him and be his heir. Mrs. Reed admits to telling Mr. Eyre that Jane had died of fever at Lowood. Soon afterward, Mrs. Reed dies, and Jane helps her cousins after the funeral before returning to Thornfield. Back at Thornfield, Jane broods over Mr. Rochester's rumoured impending marriage to Blanche Ingram. However, one midsummer evening, Rochester baits Jane

neg: Jane Eyre (2011 film) news of which has so shocked his mother, Sarah Reed, that it has brought on a stroke. Apparently, Mrs. Reed has been asking to see Jane. Jane returns to Gateshead, where her dying aunt shows her a letter from Jane's paternal uncle, John Eyre, asking for her to go to live with him in Madeira. He wants to adopt Jane and make her a beneficiary in his will. Jane notices that the letter was dated three years ago. Mrs. Reed admits to telling John Eyre that Jane had died of typhus at Lowood School. Mrs. Reed tells Jane that she

neg: Charlotte Brontë with the publication of "Wuthering Heights" by Ellis Bell (Emily) and "Agnes Grey" by Acton Bell (Anne). Accompanying the speculation was a change in the critical reaction to Brontë's work, as accusations were made that the writing was "coarse", a judgement more readily made once it was suspected that Currer Bell was a woman. However, sales of "Jane Eyre" continued to be strong and may even have increased as a result of the novel developing a reputation as an "improper" book. A talented amateur artist, Brontë personally did the drawings for the second edition of "Jane Eyre" and in the

neg: The Shoemaker's Holiday cousin. Simon Eyre: A master Shoemaker for whom Hans and Ralph work. Eyre is based on the historical figure Simon Eyre (1395–1458) a London merchant and artisan who was elected Lord Mayor in 1445. Margery Eyre: The wife of Simon Eyre. Roger: Simon Eyre's foreman, known as Hodge. Ralph: Simon Eyre's journeyman and husband to Jane. He is drafted into the war. A boy: Servant of Simon Eyre. Jane: Wife of Ralph. She almost marries Hammon after being falsely informed her husband had died in war. Hammon: A wealthy London citizen who attempts to court and wed Jane. Warner: Hammon's

neg: Jane Eyre (character) feature in Jane Eyre, represented by Edward Rochester) and had remained distinct from the Anglo-Saxon culture that produced the Puritan sect (the evangelical Calvinist feature in Jane Eyre, variants of which are represented by Brocklehurst and St. John). The Jane Eyre character's examined inner soul and self with some emotional availability and overtones of a Communitarian Christianity, plain appearance, view of women as equals to men in economic and political rights and responsibility, and power of dissent and civil disobedience are features of Religious Society of Friends political and cultural views. These views later informed the drafting of the United

neg: Zelah Clarke Eyre", an adaptation of Charlotte Brontë's novel of the same name, produced for the BBC The serial starred Zelah Clarke as the title character, and Timothy Dalton as Edward Rochester. Clarke lamented in an interview that the role of Jane had virtually ended her career. She had received good reviews but work dried up while her co-star Timothy Dalton became a star. Zelah Clarke was nominated for a 1985 CableACE Award for Actress in a Movie or Miniseries for her portrayal of Jane Eyre. She has continued to undertake voice work recording audiobooks including, Nina Bawdin's "Outside Child" and "Carrie's

neg: Kristin Cashore debut novel, "Graceling", was published in October 2008. The book has been nominated for the Andre Norton and William C. Morris awards. Her second book, "Fire", was released in October 2009, and is described as being a 'prequel-ish companion book' to "Graceling". "Fire" received the Amelia Elizabeth Walden Book Award. Her third book, "Bitterblue", was released in May 2012. All three books were a part of the Graceling Realm series which has sold more than 1.5 million copies and has been translated into 33 languages. Her latest book is "Jane, Unlimited," which was released in September 2017. "Jane, Unlimited" is

neg: Liminality land on docked boats, becoming liminal people; as such, liminality is a major theme in the novel. Bellow's varied uses of liminality...include his "Dangling Man", suspended between civilian life and the armed forces' at 'the onset of the dangling days'. Charlotte Brönte's widely-read "Jane Eyre" follows the protagonist through different stages of life as she crosses the threshold from student to teacher to woman. Her existence throughout the novel is liminal and can first be seen when she hides herself behind a large red curtain to read, closing herself off physically and existing in a paracosmic realm. At Gateshead, Jane

neg: Lost in a Good Book Dickens' novel "Great Expectations". Thursday is, however, in some legal trouble in the literary world for having changed the ending of Jane Eyre, in "The Eyre Affair". After a preliminary hearing in the Byzantine world of Kafka's "The Trial" and saving Abel Magwitch from drowning before the beginning of "Great Expectations", Havisham and Thursday part ways and the latter character enters "The Raven" and retrieves Jack Schitt. But Goliath have no intention of keeping their word, and they trap Thursday in a Corporation warehouse without any reading material with which she can read herself out. Miss Havisham finds her there

neg: The Thirteenth Tale p. 175 Jane Eyre is the first title to creep into the book, and once having found its place, never left. Only when the girl in the mist comes to be, is the connection between Miss Winter's story and that of Jane's- the outsider in the family. Jane Eyre moves from the beginning as a book that is often discussed, to an important part of the story; the inner furniture of Margaret's and Miss Winter's minds. Most conversations between Vida Winter and Margaret centre-point Jane Eyre. Miss Winter's example with the burning books focuses Jane Eyre as the "only hope"

neg: Aline Brosh McKenna single-camera comedy called "Big Men" that has been set up at CBS. McKenna made her graphic novel debut in late 2017, working with artist Ramon Perez on "Jane", a modern retelling of Charlotte Brontë's 1847 novel "Jane Eyre." The graphic novel was produced by Boom! Studios. McKenna was the first ever guest on the screenwriting podcast "Scriptnotes", hosted by John August and Craig Mazin. She made her debut on the show's 60th episode, a live event at the Austin Film Festival in October 2012. She is, by a long distance, the podcast's most frequent guest, having made over two dozen

neg: Jane Welsh Carlyle "The Early Letters of Jane Welsh Carlyle." In 1973, American scholar G. B. Tennyson described her as "one of the rare Victorian wives who are of literary interest in their own right...to be remembered as one of the great letter writers (in some respects her husband’s superior) of the nineteenth century is glory beyond the dreams of avarice." Otherwise, Jane didn't act upon her literary talent. She was once thought to have written "Jane Eyre", but she never went so far as to even co-author a novel with Geraldine. A plaque to Jane stands on the west side of George

neg: The Twelve and the Genii Men" by Branwell Brontë. Parson Howson mentions the book and Mrs. Morley finds a copy which she intends to read to Max. This book convinces older brother Philip that the Morley soldiers are the Brontë ones. Jane Morley has just finished reading Charlotte Brontë's "Jane Eyre", which she loves, and she christens the handsome Mr. Howson "Mr. Rochester" after the hero. The Twelve and the Genii The Twelve and the Genii, or "The Return of the Twelves" in the US, is a low fantasy novel for children by Pauline Clarke, first published by Faber in 1962 with illustrations by Cecil

neg: Lucy (novel) have to be defined by the roles of either colonized or colonzier." Critics have also focused on the many intertexts on which the novel draws. Diane Simmons details the way in which the novel draws on John Milton's "Paradise Lost" and Charlotte Brontë's "Jane Eyre", noting that Brontë was Kincaid's favorite author. David Yost observes that "Lucy" contains many correspondences to another Brontë novel, "Villette"—including the names of its primary couple (Lucy and Paul), its plot (an au pair adjusting to a foreign culture), its themes (sexual repression of women and self-recreation through art), and its setting ("Villette"'s Paul dies

neg: Shirley (novel) Shirley (novel) Shirley, A Tale is an 1849 social novel by the English novelist Charlotte Brontë. It was Brontë's second published novel after "Jane Eyre" (originally published under Brontë's pseudonym Currer Bell). The novel is set in Yorkshire in the period 1811–12, during the industrial depression resulting from the Napoleonic Wars and the War of 1812. The novel is set against a backdrop of the Luddite uprisings in the Yorkshire textile industry. The novel's popularity led to Shirley's becoming a woman's name. The title character was given the name that her father had intended to give a son. Before the

neg: Howardena Pindell curatorial assistant, and associate curator. In 1972, Pindell co-founded the A.I.R. Gallery, which was the first artist-directed gallery for women artists in the United States. There were twenty artist cofounders, including Nancy Spero, Agnes Denes, Barbara Zucker, Dottie Attie, Judith Bernstein, Harmony Hammond, Maude Boltz, Louise Kramer, and others. At the first meeting, held on March 17 1972, Pindell suggested naming the gallery the "Eyre Gallery" after the novel Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë. The artists decided to name the gallery "A.I.R. Gallery" instead, which stands for "Artists in Residence." The gallery allowed women artists to curate their own exhibitions,

neg: Charlotte Brontë style was innovative, combining naturalism with gothic melodrama, and broke new ground in being written from an intensely evoked first-person female perspective. Brontë believed art was most convincing when based on personal experience; in "Jane Eyre" she transformed the experience into a novel with universal appeal. "Jane Eyre" had immediate commercial success and initially received favourable reviews. G. H. Lewes wrote that it was "an utterance from the depths of a struggling, suffering, much-enduring spirit", and declared that it consisted of ""suspiria de profundis"!" (sighs from the depths). Speculation about the identity and gender of the mysterious Currer Bell heightened

neg: Shirley (novel) the title character, "Shirley" is narrated by an omniscient but unnamed third-person narrator. For her third novel "Villette", Brontë returned to first-person narration. The novel has only been filmed once to date, in 1922. The silent adaptation was done by A. V. Bramble, and Carlotta Breese starred as the title character. In March 2014, BBC Radio 4 broadcast a 10-episode dramatisation by Rachel Joyce in the station's "15 Minute Drama" slot. Narrated by Lesley Sharp, the series starred Joanne Froggatt as Caroline and Jemima Rooper as Shirley. Coming soon after "Jane Eyre", which was extremely successful, "Shirley" originally received a

neg: Thornfield Hall Thornfield Hall Thornfield Hall is the home of the male romantic lead, Edward Fairfax Rochester, in the novel "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë, where much of the action takes place. Brontë uses the depiction of Thornfield in a manner consistent with the gothic tone of the novel as a whole. An isolated mansion of unspecified size, the house has a number of apparently unused rooms that become important to the narrative during the Bertha Mason passages. The Hall's gloomy character also expresses and amplifies the sense of Mr. Rochester's depression and malaise before he falls in love with Jane. In

neg: Shirley (novel) and his family. Robert soon moves back to his house and persuades his sister that the very thing the house needs to cheer it up is a visit from Caroline. Robert asks for Caroline's forgiveness. Louis finally makes his declaration – he proposes to Shirley, despite the difference in their relative situations, and Shirley agrees to marry him. At first, Caroline is to be the bridesmaid for Shirley, but Robert proposes and she accepts. The novel ends with Caroline marrying Robert and Shirley marrying his brother, Louis. Unlike "Jane Eyre", which is written in the first person and narrated by

neg: Rebecca (novel) as well as translations listed below. In the US, du Maurier won the National Book Award for favourite novel of 1938, voted by members of the American Booksellers Association. In 2003, the novel was listed at number 14 on the UK survey The Big Read. In 2017, it was voted the UK's favourite book of the past 225 years in a poll by bookseller W H Smith. Other novels in the shortlist were "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee, "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen, "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Bronte, and "1984" by George Orwell. The first adaptation of

neg: Shirley (novel) muted reception from critics. The four central characters are studies in contrast: the two friends Caroline Helstone and Shirley Keeldar, and their loves, the brothers Robert and Louis Gérard Moore. Other characters in the novel include: Shirley (novel) Shirley, A Tale is an 1849 social novel by the English novelist Charlotte Brontë. It was Brontë's second published novel after "Jane Eyre" (originally published under Brontë's pseudonym Currer Bell). The novel is set in Yorkshire in the period 1811–12, during the industrial depression resulting from the Napoleonic Wars and the War of 1812. The novel is set against a backdrop of

neg: Michael Fassbender off for years. Fassbender portrayed Edward Rochester in the 2011 film "Jane Eyre", featuring Mia Wasikowska in the title role, with Cary Fukunaga directing. Fassbender portrayed Magneto in the superhero blockbuster "", the prequel to "X-Men". Set in 1962, it focuses on the friendship between Charles Xavier (played by James McAvoy) and Magneto and the origin of their groups, the X-Men and the Brotherhood of Mutants. The film was released on 3 June 2011 to general acclaim and financial success and promoted Fassbender to being more of a popular movie star. In 2011, Fassbender starred in "A Dangerous Method" by

neg: Bernard Herrmann and excerpts from "Jane Eyre", "The Snows of Kilimanjaro", "Citizen Kane" and "The Devil and Daniel Webster"); and "The Fantasy World of Bernard Herrmann" ("Journey to the Center of the Earth", "The Day the Earth Stood Still", and "Fahrenheit 451".) Fellow composers Richard Band, Graeme Revell, Christopher Young, Danny Elfman and Brian Tyler consider Herrmann to be a major inspiration. In 1985, Richard Band's opening theme to "Re-Animator" borrows heavily from Herrmann's opening score to "Psycho". In 1990, Graeme Revell had adapted Herrmann's music from "Psycho" for its television sequel-prequel "". Revell's early orchestral music during the early nineties, such

neg: Jane Eyre (musical) the role of Mr. Rochester. The London premiere of "Jane Eyre the Musical" took place in June 2007 at the Jack Lyons Theatre: Royal Academy of Music, with Director Matt Ryan and Musical Director John Owen Edwards. ^ = songs on the soundtrack ----- Poor Master on the soundtrack is sung by Richard Mason, so it's slightly different.---- Before the song "Rain", on the CD, a cut song from the show "My Maker" is sung by Jane. Jane Eyre, a young orphan, is living at Gateshead but is ill-treated by her Aunt Mrs. Reed and cousin John Reed. Jane is

neg: Cormorant has inspired numerous writers, including Amy Clampitt, who wrote a poem called "The Cormorant in its Element". The species she described may have been the pelagic cormorant, which is the only species in the temperate U.S. with the "slim head ... vermilion-strapped" and "big black feet" that she mentions. A cormorant representing Blanche Ingram appears in the first of the fictional paintings by Jane in Charlotte Brontë's novel "Jane Eyre". The cormorant served as the hood ornament for the Packard automobile brand. Cormorants (and books about them written by a fictional ornithologist) are a recurring fascination of the protagonist in

neg: Romance novel times, he eventually rewards her virtue by sincerely proposing an equitable marriage to her. The book was one of the first bestsellers, with five editions printed in the first eleven months of release. Jane Austen is an important influence on romance genre fiction, and "Pride and Prejudice", published in 1813, has been called "the best romance novel ever written." In the early part of the Victorian era, the Brontë sisters, like Austen, wrote literary fiction that influenced later popular fiction. Charlotte Brontë in "Jane Eyre", published in 1847, introduced the orphaned heroine. Brontë's love romance incorporates elements of both the

neg: Jane Eyre (character) be based on the Clergy Daughters School at Cowan Bridge, where two of Brontë's sisters, Maria and Elizabeth, died. Brontë declared, "I will show you a heroine as plain and as small as myself," in regards to creating Jane Eyre. When she was twenty, Brontë wrote to Robert Southey for his thoughts on writing. "Literature cannot be the business of a woman's life, and it ought not to be", he said. When "Jane Eyre" was published about ten years later, it was purportedly written by Jane, and called "Jane Eyre: An Autobiography", with Currer Bell (Brontë) merely as editor. And

neg: Spinster family caretaker for their family of origin or for a married sibling's children, "poor relations" who would work "to earn their keep" as nannies or unpaid domestics. For example, being a governess was the fate expected by rejected titular orphan in Charlotte Brontë's novel "Jane Eyre" (1847); Eyre retained that status until the man she loved was widowed and available. A common theme in the fiction writings of author/poet Sandra Cisneros is marital disillusionment; for example. in the poem "Old Maids" (1994). In the Charles Dickens' classic "Great Expectations", the primary antagonist is Miss Havisham, a spinster embittered by being

neg: John Eyre (settler) John Eyre (settler) John Eyre (died 1685) was an English Cromwellian settler in Ireland who became Mayor of Galway. Eyre was born in Wiltshire, England, in the early 17th century, the son of Giles Eyre and Jane Snelgrove. The couple had ten sons and five daughters, John been the seventh son. The attended All Saints Church, Whiteparish, where Giles and Jane are buried. Their funerary memorial, located within the church, reads: "Buried here Gyles Eyre Esqre and Jane his wife. A man much oppressed by publick power for his laudable opposition to the measures taken in the reigns of James

neg: Jane Eyre (character) sight back – enough to see their firstborn son. Jane Eyre is described as plain, with an elfin look. Jane describes herself as, "poor, obscure, plain and little." Mr. Rochester once compliments Jane's "hazel eyes and hazel hair", but she informs the reader that Mr. Rochester was mistaken, as her eyes are not hazel; they are in fact green. It has been said that "Charlotte Brontë may have created the character of Jane Eyre as a means of coming to terms with elements of her own life." By all accounts, Brontë's, "homelife was difficult." Jane's school, Lowood, is said to

neg: Jane Eyre happenings at Thornfield. It turns out that Jane's uncle, Mr. John Eyre, is a friend of Mr. Mason's and was visited by him soon after Mr. Eyre received Jane's letter about her impending marriage. After the marriage ceremony is broken off, Mr. Rochester asks Jane to go with him to the south of France, and live with him as husband and wife, even though they cannot be married. Refusing to go against her principles, and despite her love for him, Jane leaves Thornfield in the middle of the night. Jane travels as far from Thornfield as she can using the

neg: Agnes Grey Agnes Grey Agnes Grey, A Novel is the debut novel of English author Anne Brontë (writing under the pen name of Acton Bell), first published in December 1847, and republished in a second edition in 1850. The novel follows Agnes Grey, a governess, as she works within families of the English gentry. Scholarship and comments by Anne's sister Charlotte Brontë suggest the novel is largely based on Anne Brontë's own experiences as a governess for five years. Like her sister Charlotte's novel "Jane Eyre", it addresses what the precarious position of governess entailed and how it affected a young woman.