Jane Eyre
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As you should know Tuesdays is book blog day were we talk about one particular book and pretty much run with it. Today's blog is on the classic Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte.
Orphaned as a child, Jane has felt an outcast her whole young life. Her courage is tested once again when she arrives at Thornfield Hall, where she has been hired by the brooding, proud Edward Rochester to care for his ward Adele. Jane finds herself drawn to his troubled yet kind spirit. She falls in love. Hard.
But there is a terrifying secret inside the gloomy, forbidding Thornfield Hall. Is Rochester hiding from Jane? Will Jane be left heartbroken and exiled once again?.
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Jane Eyre was released by British Publishers Smith, Elder and Co on 16th October 1847 under Charlotte Bronte's pen name Currer Bell. The American Edition was published the following year by Harper and Brothers of New York. Jane Eyre is a Bildungsroman which follows the experiences of its eponymous heroine, including her growth to adulthood and her love for Mr Rochester, the brooding Master of Thornfield Hall.
OK, I've always believed that Jane Eyre belongs amongst the Classics like many of the books by the Bronte Sisters. Mainly because it provides two world views of sorts, one as written by the author of 19th Century England and of the author herself, that of what she thought of women's places in life in general. However I have to admit Jane Eyre was one of those books I truly struggle to read the whole way through, it takes me time to read it and often have to read it in stages. Despite this I do like the book and give it a 6/10.
Jane Eyre's initial reception is greatly contrasted to its reputation today. Elizabeth Rigby (Later Eastlake) gave a review in 1848 for the The Quarterly Review stating it was “Pre-Eminently an anti-Christian Composition” and declared “We don't hesitate to say that tone of mind and thought which has overthrown authority and violated every code human and divine abroad, and has fostered Chartism and rebellion at home ” GH Lewis another critic stated “It's full of youthful vigor, of freshness and originality....it is a book to make the pulses gallop and the heart beat, and to fill the eyes with tears” Literary Critic Jermone Beaty however believed the close first-person perspective leaves the reader “Too uncritically accepting of her worldview” in 2003 the novel was ranked 10th in the BBC's survey THE BIG READ.
Charlotte Bronte was born on April 21st 1816, the third child of Maria and Patrick Bronte, in Market Street in Thornton. The family moved to the village of Haworth in 1820 where they would be based for several years. Charlotte, her brother Branwell and their sisters Anne and Emily started writing and by the 1840's the sisters had at least written several poems and stories.
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