February 2012
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rgr-pop:
Jane Eyre was robbed. ROBBED.
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“He is not to them what he is to me,” I thought: “he is not of their kind. I...”
– exc. from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë (via p-e-c-h-e-u-r)
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scarletmorgana:
I love you, Edward Fairfax Rochester.
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“”It’s as if I had a string somewhere under my left ribs, tightly and...”
– (via gossamerview)
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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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