Some authors have borrowed Bronte's characters and setting to tell their own stories. We have not only the book, but the 2006 film adaptation on DVD. Perhaps the best-known novel inspired by Jane Eyre is Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea, a prequel which imagines the pre- Eyre life of the first Mrs.
Joan Fontaine and Orson Welles in the 1944 film ( DVD).Virginia Bruce and Colin Clive star as Jane and Rochester in the 1934 film ( streaming).We have several of them on DVD or streaming video: There have been at least thirty adaptations of Jane Eyre for film and television. You can enjoy Bronte's Jane Eyre as an e-book or e-audio, in print, or as an audiobook.
This week, we're going to take a quick tour through some of the many Jane Eyres. One critic described it as "anti-Christian" and claimed that it "violated every code human and divine." But it has become one of the enduring classics of English literature, and has inspired a remarkable number of adaptations, remakes, prequels, sequels, and spinoffs. It is at Thornfield that she meets the dark and brooding master of the house, Edward Rochester, whom she finds both fascinating and disquieting. The novel is Jane's coming-of-age story, taking us from a childhood spent in the home of a cruel aunt, through several years at a harsh boarding school, to her employment as a governess as Thornfield Hall. "An intriguing idea for a mashup.On October 16, 1847, Charlotte Bronte's novel Jane Eyre was published in London, under the pseudonym "Currer Bell." The first American edition was published a year later. Jane Eyre may have arrived at Thornfield an unfulfilled and tentative woman, but she will leave a very different person… Who is the enigmatic Rochester and why is she attracted to him? What are the strange, yet captivating noises coming from the attic, and why does the very air she breathes feel heavy with passion? Only one thing is certain. When an eager and curious Jane Eyre arrives at Thornfield Hall her sexual desires are awakened. And in JANE EYRE LAID BARE, author Eve Sinclair writes between the lines to chart the smoldering sexual chemistry between the long-suffering governess and her brooding employer. After all, the original was written in 1847. It's a novel that simmers with sexual tension but never quite reaches the boiling point. Everyone is familiar with Charlotte Brontë's passionate, but restrained novel in which the plain, yet spirited governess Jane Eyre falls for the arrogant Mr.
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