This is better than the Jane Austen books, but it is long. Jane is a governess. She falls for the much older Rochester and is upset that he is going to get married. He offers to marry her, but this falls apart when it is found he was already married. At the end, he becomes an invalid and they are able to marry. There is a lot of detail and conversation in between, with family history and wealth all tied together.
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Saturday, April 12, 2025
Jane Eyre
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
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Sunday, December 23, 2018
My Plain Jane
It presents the actual novel as a story that was inspired by Charlotte Bronte's experience with the real Jane Eyre. Charlotte and Jane are friends in this novel. Other historical and fictional characters also have various roles. I can make some educated guesses as to who is from the novel and who is from the author's life, but some could have just as well been created solely for this novel. The understanding doesn't really matter. (Though it could make things more interesting.) There are various cases of good ghosts, bad ghosts, and ghosts just meandering around. The bad guy ends up being super bad, but there are plenty of twists and turns, with just about everyone being a possible "bad guy". The book is a great "ghost mystery comedy" on its own.
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