Jane Eyre

[haustusstevemcclure]

I just finished [re-]reading Charlotte Bronte's novel Jane Eyre.

A truly fascinating novel.  [ am actually not sure I ever read it before, and if not, how much I would have missed, and if I did, I was far too.immature and historically unaware thso perceive its power.]

Ground breaking.  Showed women, young women oof the lower economic levels as non-dependent thinking, deciding centers of selfhood , non-subservient in dignity.

A challenge to the core of 'accepted' female roles and assumptions in the early 19th century.

I heartily recommend that all read or reread it now, being so much aware of facts on the ground as we all are now.

Steve

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[haustusstevemcclure]

Now to re-innoculate myself into male and historical blindness.  Back to another Harry Bosch cop novel!

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[jrbdo...@aol.com]

 Steve,

To be candid, I bristle at the thought of reading a British novel published in the year said British were moving savagely forward on their genocidal treatment of the Irish, my ancestors on both sides included among them.

Now I opened a copy of Jane Eyre and the prose seems stilted and lugubrious. 

Can you suggest a passage or two or even one or two chapters that would convey what you found interesting? 

I'll be reading on my PC, not in hard copy.

Best,

Jim 

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Now to re-inoculate myself into male and historical blindness.  Back to another Harry Bosch cop novel!

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[haustusstevemcclure]

Also, Jim, this book is in no way a celebration of, or dependent fir it's power on a ratification of British Imperialism.

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