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From childhood staples such as William Brown and Paddington Bear to classic heroes and heroines like Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre and Jane Austen's Elizabeth Bennet, these figures have resided in ...

I have spent years of my life reading and loving Charlotte Brontë's novel "Jane Eyre." But in the last few years I have realized something: The main character of this novel isn't Jane ...

Apparently, it’s not hard to make a Jane Eyre movie. But it’s hard to make a good one. The classic book, by Charlotte Brontë, has a creepy, supernatural element that translates awkwardly to ...

When ramrod-straight governess Jane Eyre (Mia Wasikowska) and her moody employer, Edward Fairfax Rochester (Michael Fassbender), do speak, the lines are rich and resonant with the idiosyncrasy of ...

Two hundred years since the birth of Charlotte Bronte, her most famous work, “Jane Eyre” still enthralls us. Its most famous line serves as the title of a new book, “Reader, I Married Him ...

With speculation rampant about a hidden, lucrative Brontë estate lurking somewhere in the world, Samantha—herself a kind of modern Jane Eyre—sets out to learn more about her mysterious family ...

While the story's eponymous heroine lives in Victorian England, is orphaned and sent to a boarding school and then winds up as a governess on a grand estate, her similarities to, say, Jane Eyre ...

Newcomer Ruth Wilson (Jane Eyre) and Toby Stephens (Edward Rochester) head up an all-star cast in a passionate new version of the much-adored classic Jane Eyre for BBC ONE. The four-part serial ...

First Colour adaptation of Jane Eyre. TV-film directed by Delbert Mann starring George C. Scott as Mr Rochester and Susannah York as Jane 1973: BBC miniseries starring Sorcha Cusack as Jane and ...

The Secret History of Jane Eyre: How Charlotte Brontë Wrote Her Masterpiece. By John Pfordresher. W.W. Norton; 254 pages; $26.95; £20. CRITICS relish a bit of detective work. Four hundred years ...