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Jane Eyre
[ jeyn air ]
noun
- a novel (1847) by Charlotte DzԳë.
Jane Eyre
- A novel by Charlotte DzԳë . Jane Eyre serves as governess to the ward of the mysterious and moody Edward Rochester. He proposes to her, but Jane discovers that he is already married to an insane woman. Eventually Jane and Rochester are reunited and, in a famous line, “Reader, I married him.”
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And a spot beneath the famous road was used as a location in the BBC's 2006 adaptation of Jane Eyre, starring Ruth Wilson.
She also played Mrs Fairfax in 1996's Jane Eyre, and her range went far beyond the classics in films like Dennis the Menace, Last Action Hero and 101 Dalmatians.
In 1820, the Brontes moved to the parsonage in Howarth, where the sisters wrote masterpieces including Emily's Wuthering Heights and Charlotte's Jane Eyre.
Most wonderful experience: Just after rereading “Jane Eyre,” I was in England and visited the extraordinary DzԳë parsonage, stood in the room where the DzԳë sisters had written and read to each other and created worlds, and walked, as they had, up the path from their door into the moors.
“Rice said, ‘Everybody knows who Jane Eyre is … and everybody knows who Frankenstein’s monster is.
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