This dramatization of Charlotte Bronte's classic 19th-century novel focuses on Jane Eyre's love affair with Rochester. All the action is contained within a single setting, with a small inset scene, providing opportunities for a mixed cast to play 11 characters.
The first American edition was published the following year by Harper & Brothers of New York.
In early nineteenth-century England, an orphaned young woman accepts employment as a governess and soon finds herself in love with her employer who has a terrible secret. Charlotte Bronte's novel...
Clare Hartwell, Nikolaus Pevsner, and Elizabeth Williamson, The Buildings of England: Derbyshire (New Haven, ... Patrick Brontë, His Collected Works and Life, ed., J. Horsefall Turner (Bingley: T. Harrison & Sons, 1898), 42.
Jane Eyre, the story of a young girl and her passage into adulthood, was an immediate commercial success at the time of its original publication in 1847.
Charlotte Brontë's first published novel, Jane Eyre was immediately recognised as a work of genius when it appeared in 1847.
Brimming with a lifelong love of classic literature and the tenderness of self-reflection, the book also reveals simple techniques for reading any work as a sacred text--from Virginia Woolf to Anne of Green Gables to baseball scorecards.
Pierrot, Madame, 14 Poole, Grace, 9,10,15,16, 39, 45, 49, 51, 55, 66 poverty among upper classes, 103 dependency and, ... R. reality versus fantasy, 31, 66, 67 reason, versus passion, 27, 47, 50 rebelliousness Bertha's, 58, 68, ...
Georget gave a more sympathetic warning of the consequences of women's social situation; prohibited from outward ... Jane's primary crime, in her aunt's eyes, is her sudden flaring into violence which suggests a history of secrecy and ...
The text reprinted in this new edition is that of the 1848 third edition text--the last text corrected by the author.
In early nineteenth-century England, an orphaned young woman accepts employment as a governess at Thornfield Hall, a country estate owned by the mysteriously remote Mr. Rochester.