Charlotte Brontë was a dutiful daughter of the Victorian age. Her best-known character, Jane Eyre, endures as a woman who transcends time and social order. How Charlotte released Jane into the world ...

But all through the book, Jane refuses to smile. That isn't to say that she's never happy (although you wouldn't be super chipper, either, if you were an orphan forced to go to an evil school where ...

ONE OF THE great thrills of reading is encountering a situation that is familiar in feeling yet alien in context. So it is on reaching chapter nine of “Jane Eyre”, in which the narrator, a ...

At the time the book came out, readers were shocked on several fronts. For one, Jane was essentially a radical feminist. She was an orphan with no family, no money, and no good looks (probably the ...

The first time I read Jane Eyre, I hated it. I was in sixth grade, and all I can remember thinking is, “Why does this character continuously mention how she’s not beautiful?” Years later, I decided to ...

(CBS News) A stubble-cheeked Romeo with Juliet in a tank top? A bodice-ripping Jane Eyre? A "Dracula" cover with rivulets of red ink dripping like blood? Don't laugh. These are some of the ways ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. "Considered by many to be the first feminist novel, Jane Eyre tells the story of a ...

THE SECRET HISTORY OF ’JANE EYRE’: HOW CHARLOTTE BRONTE WROTE HER MASTERPIECE By John Pfordresher W.W. Norton, $26.95, 254 pages If I had read this admirable study by John Pfordresher, a professor of ...

I was hooked by “Jane Steele” when I first heard the premise: a retelling of Charlotte Bronte’s “Jane Eyre,” with the heroine as a serial killer. Beyond that, I wasn’t sure how the book would actually ...

Three-fourths thriller and one part reimagined classic, “The Wife Upstairs” is a feisty Southern charmer that’s twisty enough to make dinners late in kitchens everywhere. Taking plot and character ...

"Jane Eyre" opens March 16 at Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park. But forget sweeping vistas of English moors and ornate Gothic mansions; this is not, according to the director and cast, "your grandma's ...