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Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
When people quiz me about “what I’ve read,” this is always the book that surprises them most, when it makes it to my “no, I haven’t read that” list (along with every other classic!) Apparently they...
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Becoming Jane Eyre by Sheila Kohler
This is book #3 for me since I started this project in January 2010. See my thoughts on my first twenty books here. Becoming Jane Eyre is a novel about the Brontë sisters, (Anne, Emily, and Charlotte),...
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Tragic Emily: As I Begin Wuthering Heights
The next novel on my list is Wuthering Heights, by Emily Brontë. I started reading this one several months ago. One hundred pages in, I stopped. (I’ve a bad habit of reading several books at once, and...
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Midway: These Happy Golden Years
I’m about halfway into These Happy Golden Years - Reading this one is like being home. I’m sad that it’s all breaking up, Mary and summers with Pa and Ma, and little girl walks. Sad with Laura as she...
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Taking Emily Brontë by the bit – again
“Emily suffers no more from pain or weakness now. She will never suffer more in this world. She is gone after a hard, short conflict…Yes there is no Emily in time or on earth now. Yesterday we put her...
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Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë
Agnes Grey is a work of literary realism, something that (I believe) was very new in the nineteenth century. The book is a look at the role of a nineteenth century governess in a churning British...
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Reading Updates – March 2011
A few scattered updates: Villette - I started this one a few weeks ago, and I’m about a third through. I don’t love it like I do Jane Eyre, but I do like it — especially all the French. (Reading it...
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Letter #1: Scarlett O’Hara offers advice to Jane Eyre (Period Drama Advice...
“Miss Elizabeth Bennet” from the Elegance of Fashion is hosting a Period Drama Advice Event in which characters from literature of her choosing post letters asking for advice, and characters from...
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An actual image of the Brontë sisters?
Click the photo to go to the website for details! Am I the last one to see this? I was surfing around a moment ago, and I might be the last person in the world to find this picture (which was...
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A response from James in defense of the term “romance novel.”
I had a brief exchange with James from Following Pulitzer today — in the comments of my post Gone With the Wind is not a romance novel! (from last week.) I hope he doesn’t mind me posting his comments...
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