Jane Eyre ~ Charlotte Brontë
Reviewed by: Barb Bowling Date: 6 November 2006
If you haven't read this Gothic tale, you should. I first read this as a romance when I was sixteen and loved it, reread it as an adult and loved it even more. Gilbert and Gubar have a very revealing chapter on the feminist perspective of this book, in their ground-breaking critical work, Madwoman in the Attic, published in the seventies.
Bronte's book is a great read about the difficult life and growth of an orphaned girl, who suffers much hardship and near starvation. Later as governess in a spooky manor house in the moors of northern England, she falls in love with the lord of the house who has a very dark secret that almost destroys her. Plus, the house is haunted.... Very mysterious--
The book Madwoman in the Attic by Gilbert and Gubar has a chapter that shows how Bronte's house is even more "haunted" than we thought! Jane Eyre is such a great book, on so many levels.
If you really like this book, read the mysterious and tragic "story behind the story of Rochester" a novel by Jean Rhys, called Wide Sargasso Sea.
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