February 2012
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charlotte bronte's villette
swell138:
i actively dislike this book and wish i had the ability to stop reading a novel i dislike (on the road wins the prize for the only book that has made me do that).
i feel like it is lying to me about being interesting. or, rather, it is lying to me about lucy snow being interesting. in some ways i am finding all the characters range from unlikeable to uninteresting. and the...
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im-your-cherry-b0mb:
What does Bessie mean when she tells Jane that John Reed was “plucked” in college?
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“Writing anonymously on the Yorkshire moors, Bronte appeals directly to our sense...”
– from a Washington Post book review by Ron Charles of The Flight of Gemma Hardy, a book that tries to be a modern retelling of Jane Eyre but fails (via laughgiant)
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January 2012
20 posts
“I think of Bertha’s violence as part of a genealogy of feminist rage – from...”
– WHATEVER: Bertha and Jane, feminist frenemies
omg, this was in my drafts from, like, a century ago. I’m pretty sure I posted it once but it’s still so important right now.
(via rgr-pop)
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LOVE, 1936: A poem I wrote for school about a book... →
yrfndrhrt:
Consumption (9/14/11)
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An unsmiling, a searching, a meaning gaze it was. It was verging on dusk, and the clock had already given warning of the first time I found St. John alone after this communication. And when the embers sank to a dull red, I undressed hastily, tugging…
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The Skies Are Pink Nowerdays: Jane Eyre →
theskiesarepinknowerdays:
Jane eyre - the play , theatre kids in my school came together to put on a very touching version of the play jane eyre it was so beautiful the story is about a governess who was once a wild child. She was finally tought to be upright and courteous but losing her child like characteristics she lost…
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I just cried so much at 'Becoming Jane'. She's so...
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OH I LOVE JANE EYRE
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They’re remaking it, the quality will not matter, I’ll love it all the same.
My Mama: Have you seen the old film with Orson Wells?
Me: Was he Mr Rochester?
Mum: Yes, well he wasn’t Jane Eyre…
Images images images, which I love. Am I the only one who like the idea of Orson Wells as a charming, plain, shy little maid?
“”It’s as if I had a string somewhere under my left ribs, tightly and...”
– (via gossamerview)
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0hmrdarcy:
You know you’re a pathetic English major when you realize that your “Star Wars” name (first three letters of last name, first two of middle name, first two of first, last three of last) contains the “eyre” (McIelmeyre).
EYRE. Like JANE EYRE. Why am I so excited?
…maybe Rochester (FASSBENDER) will marry me now?
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Ms. Marie Rochester
tinglealley:
I didn’t know this: When Angela Carter died she was working ”on a novel about Jane Eyre’s stepdaughter for which she’d submitted a synopsis: Adele was going to fall in love with a schoolteacher, seduce her own father and watch her mother being guillotined; it was going to play ‘some tricks with history … But then it is a novel.’”
December 2011
12 posts
I demand that other 19th century classics like...
crazyfntown:
“You have both sentiments of love and jealousy yet to experience; your soul...”
– Jane Eyre (via fallthroughme)
“If people were always kind and obedient to those who are cruel and unjust, the...”
– Jane Eyre, chapter 6
(via thebiteoftheshe-wolf)
“A soft hope blent with my sorrow that soon I should dare to drop a kiss on that...”
– Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (via quoteablebooks)
my soul is burning: One of my favourite 'Jane... →
theconnotationsofdisaster:
“Women are supposed to be very calm generally; but women feel just as men feel; they need exercise for their faculties and a field for their efforts as much as their brothers do; they suffer from too rigid a restraint, too absolute a stagnation, precisely as men would suffer; and it is…
[S]uch a beating of eggs, sorting of currants,...
“In the name of all the elves in Christendom, is that Jane Eyre?”
– Rochester
“Christmas and the New Year had been celebrated at Gateshead with the usual...”
– Jane Eyre
Ferris Jabr at Scientific American: Was Jane... →
On April 27, 1817, Jane Austen sat down and wrote her will, leaving almost all of her assets—valued at less than 800 pounds sterling—to her sister Cassandra. In May, the sisters moved to Winchester, England, so the bedridden Jane would be near her doctor. On July 18, only a few days after dictating 24 lines of comic verse to Cassandra, Jane died.
Since at least the 1960s Austen scholars,...
November 2011
11 posts
“You have the chance to love someone who loves you with all her soul. Not many...”
– Jane Eyre (via onerepublicmunchkin)
spotlessmindtricks:
“Forgiveness
Is the mightiest sword
Forgiveness of those you fear
Is the highest reward
When they bruise you with words
When they make you feel small
When it’s hardest to take
You must do nothing at all…” -“Jane Eyre” by Charlotte Bronte
The Skies Are Pink Nowerdays: Jane Eyre →
theskiesarepinknowerdays:
Jane eyre - the play , theatre kids in my school came together to put on a very touching version of the play jane eyre it was so beautiful the story is about a governess who was once a wild child. She was finally tought to be upright and courteous but losing her child like characteristics she lost…
OUR ENCHANTED EVENINGS: A poem I wrote for school... →
beastofseasons:
Consumption (9/14/11)
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An unsmiling, a searching, a meaning gaze it was. It was verging on dusk, and the clock had already given warning of the first time I found St. John alone after this communication. And when the embers sank to a dull red, I undressed hastily, tugging…
The Skies Are Pink Nowerdays: Jane Eyre →
theskiesarepinknowerdays:
Jane eyre - the play , theatre kids in my school came together to put on a very touching version of the play jane eyre it was so beautiful the story is about a governess who was once a wild child. She was finally tought to be upright and courteous but losing her child like characteristics she lost…
“I can live alone, if self-respect, and circumstances require me so to do. I need...”
– ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre (via oh-sayitaintso)
“And winter’s chill is on my heart—
How can I dream of future bliss?
How can my...”
– The Arbour // Anne Brontë (via esztersvitkona)
“What contradictory attributes of character we sometimes find ascribed to us,...”
– Charlotte Bronte, VILLETTE (via helenwalko)
“Oh, I am not going to die, am I? He will not separate us, we have been so happy.”
– Last words of Charlotte Bronte (via lastwordsof
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