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Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë — book review
“Who blames me? Many, no doubt; and I shall be called discontented. I could not help it: the restlessness was in my nature; it agitated me to pain sometimes.” Jane Eyre is not only considered a classic (if not the classic) in feminist literature, but an exemplary piece of Romantic Gothic literature. Personally, I view…
1830s, 1840s, 1st pov, 3.75 stars, age gap, beautiful prose, bildungsroman, boarding/private school, BOOK REVIEWS, Booklr, British author, british classics, CHARLOTTE BRONTË, CHILDHOOD, class, CLASSICS, england, favourite authors, female authors, friendships, GOTHIC, growing up, HISTORICAL FICTION, identity, illness, introspective, jane eyre, madness, manor/big house, Mr. Rochester, orphans, psychological, published in 1847, READ IN 2019, Religion, sitter/au pair/governess, St. John Eyre Rivers, Thornfield, VICTORIAN, victorian madness -
Villette by Charlotte Brontë
Even after a third reading I am still surprised by how much this novel resonates with me. A lot readers will start Villette expecting a rehash of Jane Eyre—a novel which I enjoyed but wasn’t particularly taken by—which is a pity given that the narrative of Villette takes its reader through a much more labyrinthine path that the straightforward Bildungsroman…
1840s, 1850s, 19TH CENTURY, 1st pov, 5 STARS, ABSOLUTE FAVOURITE, ALIENATION, ambiguous protagonist, boarding/private school, British author, british classics, CHARLOTTE BRONTË, CLASSICS, cold tone, england, existentialism, female authors, female doubles, FRANCE, GENDER, GOTHIC, HISTORICAL FICTION, identity, introspective, LITERARY FICTION, loneliness, Lucy Snowe, MEMORY, philosophical, published in 1853, re-reads, Religion, ROMANCE, travel, unreliable narrators, unrequited love, VICTORIAN, VILLETTE
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