Charlotte Brontë: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë (2020, Independently Published)
English language
Published 2020 by Independently Published.
The novel is set somewhere in the north of England. Jane's childhood at Gateshead Hall, where she is emotionally and physically abused by her aunt and cousins; her education at Lowood School, where she acquires friends and role models but also suffers privations and oppression; her time as the governess of Thornfield Hall, where she falls in love with her Byronic employer, Edward Rochester; her time with the Rivers family, during which her earnest but cold clergyman cousin, St John Rivers, proposes to her. Will she or will she not marry him?
I am in absolute awe of this author. I don't care for the poems/stanza type works, but the stories are phenomenal! My favorite was Silently and Very Fast, but I must have bookmarked over 10 of them.
To give you an idea of how amazing she is, I had 130+ highlights. So. Good.
4.5 stars - too moved to write a proper review right away. [Prtf]
This book is very good, I can't exactly tell you why though. Perhaps it's because her inner dialogues seem so real as if I'm listening to Anne Frank instead. Or that Charlotte Bronte is way ahead of her time in early feminism. I also don't remember spotting any obvious and eyerolly tropes. Jane Eyre's thought processes were just a pleasure to listen to, especially when read by Thandie Newton!
In some parts of the book I found my focus wavering and I almost lost track of what is going on, but at other parts it was very interesting.
