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,...