My rating: 5 of 5 stars
I have loved this book for years now, but… honestly, what a cad Rochester is. I know it’s not precisely an original observation, but still. Jane deserved better. And only a blinkered Charlotte, with exactly the narrowly circumscribed inculcated nineteenth century notion of a woman’s lot she ascribes to Jane, could possibly think that ending a happy one.
And yet, it’s still one of barely a handful of books in my lifetime that have reduced me to feeling off my head while reading it, light-headed and nutty and unsteady as if I’d had a drink or two. What can you do? A massively annoying permanent classic.
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Also one of my all-time favourites some books you never forget reading do you and I find that true of many books I read years ago…
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That’s certainly true for Jane Eyre. It absolutely rocked me to my foundations, I can’t think of many other books that have had a comparable effect. Perhaps Donna Tartt’s The Secret History, in a different way.
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I have not read that one but I also love Great Expectations 🙂
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Ah yes, this is a wonderful classic- absolutely love it too- I really need to reread it.
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It’s transforming, luminous, subversive in its own way – even if modern interpretations and experience of it also completely subvert Charlotte’s original intentions.
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