Which 1966 postcolonial parallel novel by Jean Rhys acts as a prequel to Charlotte Brontë's 1847 novel Jane Eyre?
"as Antoinette Cosway and Rafe Spall as Rochester. Wide Sargasso Sea (2006 film) Wide Sargasso Sea is a British television adaptation of Jean Rhys's 1966 novel of the same name. Produced by Kudos Film & Television for BBC Wales, the one-off 90-minute drama was first broadcast on digital television channel BBC Four on 9 October 2006. It was repeated on BBC One on Sunday, 22 October 2006, the week following the conclusion of BBC One's adaptation of ""Jane Eyre"", to which ""Wide Sargasso Sea"" is a prequel. The adaptation was scripted by playwright Stephen Greenhorn, produced by Elwen Rowlands and"
"The Eyre Affair The Eyre Affair is the debut novel by English author Jasper Fforde, published by Hodder and Stoughton in 2001. It takes place in an alternative 1985, where literary detective Thursday Next pursues a master criminal through the world of Charlotte Brontë's ""Jane Eyre"". Fforde had received 76 rejections for earlier works before being accepted by a publisher. Critical reception of this novel was generally positive, remarking on its originality. In a parallel universe, England and Imperial Russia have fought the Crimean War for more than a century; England still has a parliamentary government, although heavily influenced by"
"Jane Eyre Jane Eyre (originally published as Jane Eyre: An Autobiography) is a novel by English writer Charlotte Brontë, published under the pen name ""Currer Bell"", on 16 October 1847, by Smith, Elder & Co. of London. The first American edition was published the following year by Harper & Brothers of New York. Arguably a ""Bildungsroman"", ""Jane Eyre"" follows the experiences of its eponymous heroine, including her growth to adulthood and her love for Mr. Rochester, the brooding master of Thornfield Hall. The novel revolutionised prose fiction in that the focus on Jane's moral and spiritual development is told through"
"Jane Eyre (2006 miniseries) Jane Eyre is a 2006 television adaptation of Charlotte Brontë's 1847 novel of the same name. The story, which has been the subject of numerous television and film adaptations, is based on the life of the orphaned title character. This four-part BBC television drama serial adaptation was broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC One. The mini-series is generally considered a successful adaptation, garnering critical acclaim and a number of prestigious nominations from various award bodies. In this version of Charlotte Brontë's novel, Jane Eyre (Georgie Henley) is raised as a poor relation in the household"
"Brontës' fiction is seen by some feminist critics as prime examples of Female Gothic, exploring woman's entrapment within domestic space and subjection to patriarchal authority and the transgressive and dangerous attempts to subvert and escape such restriction. Emily's Cathy and Charlotte Brontë's ""Jane Eyre"" are both examples of female protagonists in such a role. Louisa May Alcott's Gothic potboiler, ""A Long Fatal Love Chase"" (written in 1866, but published in 1995) is also an interesting specimen of this subgenre. Elizabeth Gaskell's tales ""The Doom of the Griffiths"" (1858) ""Lois the Witch"", and ""The Grey Woman"" all employ one of the"
"Jane Eyre (1996 film) Jane Eyre is a 1996 American, British, French and Italian romantic epic and dramatic feature film adaptation of Charlotte Brontë's 1847 novel ""Jane Eyre"". This Hollywood version, directed by Franco Zeffirelli, is similar to the original novel, although it compresses and eliminates most of the plot in the last quarter of the book (the running away, the trials and tribulations, new found relations, and new job) to condense it into a 2-hour movie. Jane Eyre (portrayed as the orphan child by Anna Paquin and as an adult by Charlotte Gainsbourg) is the plain, impoverished young woman"
"Jerome Beaty felt that the close first person perspective leaves the reader ""too uncritically accepting of her worldview"", and often leads reading and conversation about the novel towards supporting Jane, regardless of how irregular her ideas or perspectives are. In 2003, the novel was ranked number 10 in the BBC's survey The Big Read. Jane Eyre Jane Eyre (originally published as Jane Eyre: An Autobiography) is a novel by English writer Charlotte Brontë, published under the pen name ""Currer Bell"", on 16 October 1847, by Smith, Elder & Co. of London. The first American edition was published the following year"
"and Son"" (1846–48), ""Bleak House"" (1852–53) and ""Little Dorrit"" (1855–57), ""Great Expectations"" (1860–1), and ""Our Mutual Friend"" (1864–65). An early rival to Dickens was William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–63), who during the Victorian period ranked second only to him, but he is now much less read and is known almost exclusively for ""Vanity Fair"" (1847). The Brontë sisters, Emily, Charlotte and Anne, were other significant novelists in the 1840s and 1850s. Their novels caused a sensation when they were first published but were subsequently accepted as classics. Charlotte Brontë's (1816–55) work was ""Jane Eyre"", broke new ground in being written from"
"a mid-twentieth century novelist who was born and grew up in the Caribbean island of Dominica, though she was mainly resident in England from the age of 16. This novel is based on ""Jane Eyre"" (1847), by Charlotte Brontë, re-told from the perspective of a subaltern protagonist, Antoinette Cosway. It is the story of Antoinette Cosway, a white Creole heiress, from the time of her youth in Jamaica, to her unhappy marriage to a certain English gentleman—he is never named by the author. He renames her to a prosaic Bertha, declares her mad, and requires her to relocate to England."
"yet, Brontë still published as Currer Bell, a man. ""Jane Eyre"" has been described by historian David Hackett Fischer as evocative of a cultural and geographic milieu of the North Midlands of England that in the mid-17th century had produced the Religious Society of Friends, a Protestant religious sect. Many members of this sect immigrated to North America and settled the Delaware Valley in the late 17th and early 18th century. This geographical area had for many centuries contained a significant population of Scandinavian-descended people who were oppressed by and resisted the Norman Conquest based in French Catholicism (the Gothic"
"Murders"" (based on the same true story as Peter Jackson's ""Heavenly Creatures"") and other works. These neglected works, as well as her controversial television documentary, ""The Holy Family Album"", are discussed in Charlotte Crofts' book, ""Anagrams of Desire"" (2003). Her novel ""Nights at the Circus"" won the 1984 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for literature. Her last novel, ""Wise Children"", is a surreal wild ride through British theatre and music hall traditions. At the time of her death, Carter had started work on a sequel to Charlotte Brontë's ""Jane Eyre"" based on the later life of Jane's stepdaughter, Adèle Varens;"
"off a richness American TV projects rarely attempt. The appeal stretches beyond style. The lean scripting (even at four hours the program can't cover every one of Brontë's plot details), the expeditious pacing and the interaction among the actors are first-class, if not as brilliant as the more ambitious and magnificent ""Bleak House"" from last season."" Jane Eyre (2006 miniseries) Jane Eyre is a 2006 television adaptation of Charlotte Brontë's 1847 novel of the same name. The story, which has been the subject of numerous television and film adaptations, is based on the life of the orphaned title character. This"
"partly modelled on Preston, it shows the influence of his friend Mrs Gaskell. Gaskell penned all her novels, with the exception of ""Mary Barton"", at her residence on Plymouth Grove. On numerous occasions Gaskell's house played host to influential authors including Dickens, Charlotte Brontë, Harriet Beecher Stowe and Charles Eliot Norton. It is now open as a literary museum. Charlotte Brontë began writing her masterpiece ""Jane Eyre"" in 1846, while staying lodgings in Hulme. Brontë was accompanying her father Patrick, who was convalescing in the city, having visited to undergo cataract surgery. She likely envisioned Manchester Cathedral churchyard as the"
"muted reception from critics. The four central characters are studies in contrast: the two friends Caroline Helstone and Shirley Keeldar, and their loves, the brothers Robert and Louis Gérard Moore. Other characters in the novel include: Shirley (novel) Shirley, A Tale is an 1849 social novel by the English novelist Charlotte Brontë. It was Brontë's second published novel after ""Jane Eyre"" (originally published under Brontë's pseudonym Currer Bell). The novel is set in Yorkshire in the period 1811–12, during the industrial depression resulting from the Napoleonic Wars and the War of 1812. The novel is set against a backdrop of"
"Agnes Grey Agnes Grey, A Novel is the debut novel of English author Anne Brontë (writing under the pen name of Acton Bell), first published in December 1847, and republished in a second edition in 1850. The novel follows Agnes Grey, a governess, as she works within families of the English gentry. Scholarship and comments by Anne's sister Charlotte Brontë suggest the novel is largely based on Anne Brontë's own experiences as a governess for five years. Like her sister Charlotte's novel ""Jane Eyre"", it addresses what the precarious position of governess entailed and how it affected a young woman."
"like Herman Melville in works such as ""Moby Dick"" (1851). Early Victorian Gothic novels that employed contemporary rural settings included Emily Brontë's ""Wuthering Heights"" (1847) and Charlotte Brontë's ""Jane Eyre"" (1847). Whereas these early Gothic novels had tended to use the city as a starting point and then moved to rural locations, abandoning the settings and securities of urban civilisation for wild and dangerous rural regions, the Gothic novels of the mid-nineteenth century began to reverse this process, or were conducted entirely in the modern industrial city, which itself became a zone of liminality, danger and adventure, and from the"
"Shirley (novel) Shirley, A Tale is an 1849 social novel by the English novelist Charlotte Brontë. It was Brontë's second published novel after ""Jane Eyre"" (originally published under Brontë's pseudonym Currer Bell). The novel is set in Yorkshire in the period 1811–12, during the industrial depression resulting from the Napoleonic Wars and the War of 1812. The novel is set against a backdrop of the Luddite uprisings in the Yorkshire textile industry. The novel's popularity led to Shirley's becoming a woman's name. The title character was given the name that her father had intended to give a son. Before the"
"in 1973 that it is ""the most subtle and complete of [Rhys'] novels, and the most humane."" Good Morning, Midnight (Rhys novel) Good Morning, Midnight is a 1939 modernist novel by the author Jean Rhys. Often considered a continuation of Rhys' three other early novels, ""Quartet"" (1928), ""After Leaving Mr Mackenzie"" (1930) and ""Voyage in the Dark"" (1934), it is experimental in design and deals with a woman's feelings of vulnerability, depression, loneliness and desperation during the years between the two World Wars. The book initially sold poorly—critics thought it well written, but too depressing—and after its publication Rhys spent"
"an intimate, first-person narrative, where actions and events are coloured by a psychological intensity. Charlotte Brontë has been called the 'first historian of the private consciousness' and the literary ancestor of writers like Proust and Joyce. The book contains elements of social criticism, with a strong sense of Christian morality at its core and is considered by many to be ahead of its time because of Jane's individualistic character and how the novel approaches the topics of class, sexuality, religion and feminism. ""Jane Eyre"" is divided into 38 chapters. It was originally published in three volumes in the 19th century,"
"Jane Eyre (1943 film) Jane Eyre is an American film adaptation of Charlotte Brontë's 1847 novel of the same name, released by 20th Century Fox. It was directed by Robert Stevenson and produced by Kenneth Macgowan and Orson Welles, both uncredited. The film stars Welles and Joan Fontaine. Elizabeth Taylor made an early, uncredited appearance as Helen Burns. The screenplay was written by John Houseman, Aldous Huxley and director Robert Stevenson. The music score was by Bernard Herrmann and the cinematography by George Barnes. Orphaned, unloved, and unwanted ten-year-old Jane Eyre (Peggy Ann Garner) lives with her cruel, selfish, uncaring"
"have to be defined by the roles of either colonized or colonzier."" Critics have also focused on the many intertexts on which the novel draws. Diane Simmons details the way in which the novel draws on John Milton's ""Paradise Lost"" and Charlotte Brontë's ""Jane Eyre"", noting that Brontë was Kincaid's favorite author. David Yost observes that ""Lucy"" contains many correspondences to another Brontë novel, ""Villette""—including the names of its primary couple (Lucy and Paul), its plot (an au pair adjusting to a foreign culture), its themes (sexual repression of women and self-recreation through art), and its setting (""Villette""'s Paul dies"
"inevitability of the crossing between childhood and womenhood. In Charlotte Brontë's novel ""Jane Eyre"", Jane's spiritual and emotional growth captivate the social criticism of its day, exploring heavy subjects such as classism, sexuality, religion, and proto-feminism during the early 1800s. In ""Peter and Wendy"", Wendy Darling is the protagonist. In some cases, the protagonist is not a human: in Richard Adams' novel ""Watership Down,"" a group of anthropomorphised rabbits, led by the protagonist Hazel, escape their warren after seeing a vision of its destruction, starting a perilous journey to find a new home. Protagonist A protagonist () is the leading"
"inexperience the company's best work in the fall from the horse having been depicted as instead as a clumsy dismount. The second review was much more positive, it praised the adaptation and acting, but found the photography to not be of the same standard as its previous work. The film is presumed lost. Jane Eyre (1910 film) Jane Eyre is a 1910 American silent short classic drama produced by the Thanhouser Film Corporation. Adapted from Charlotte Brontë's 1847 novel, ""Jane Eyre"", the film mirrors the events and plot of the original book. The writer of the scenario is unknown, but"
"which began with the pseudonymously published ""Jane Eyre"" in 1847 and the public revelation of her true identity in 1850, rocketed in the months after the announcement of her death. As press speculation about Charlotte's private life became more intense and inaccurate Patrick Brontë requested the help of Charlotte's friend the novelist Elizabeth Gaskell to correct the distortions in the form of an authorised biography. Arthur Nicholls was reluctant to participate, especially as it would require him granting Gaskell permission to quote directly from Charlotte's personal letters. He relented but soon after the publication of ""The Life of Charlotte Brontë"""
"the Rye"" is a well-known modern example of fictional autobiography. Charlotte Brontë's ""Jane Eyre"" is yet another example of fictional autobiography, as noted on the front page of the original version. The term may also apply to works of fiction purporting to be autobiographies of real characters, e.g., Robert Nye's ""Memoirs of Lord Byron"". In antiquity such works were typically entitled ""apologia,"" purporting to be self-justification rather than self-documentation. John Henry Newman's Christian confessional work (first published in 1864) is entitled ""Apologia Pro Vita Sua"" in reference to this tradition. The Jewish historian Flavius Josephus introduces his autobiography (""Josephi Vita"","
"for ""The Princess Bride"". The film holds a positive rating of 74% at Rotten Tomatoes based on 27 reviews. ""The New York Times"" called Hurt ""embarrassingly miscast as a Rochester more nearly a mild eccentric than a brooding, Byronic type"", but conceded that the film ""has its moments"". Jane Eyre (1996 film) Jane Eyre is a 1996 American, British, French and Italian romantic epic and dramatic feature film adaptation of Charlotte Brontë's 1847 novel ""Jane Eyre"". This Hollywood version, directed by Franco Zeffirelli, is similar to the original novel, although it compresses and eliminates most of the plot in the"
"their relations with industrialists, focusing more on the thinking and perspective of the employers. ""Shirley"" (1849), Charlotte Brontë's second published novel after ""Jane Eyre"", is also a social novel. Set in Yorkshire in the period 1811–12, during the industrial depression resulting from the Napoleonic Wars and the War of 1812, the action in ""Shirley"" takes place against a backdrop of the Luddite uprisings in the Yorkshire textile industry. Social problems are also an important concern in the novels of Charles Dickens, including in particular poverty and the unhealthy living conditions associated with it, the exploitation of ordinary people by money"
"the dichotomy between each novel's protagonists. ""V""illette"" bears a certain Brontëan resemblance to ""Jane Eyre"" -- gothic mysticism, spiritual intensity, bursts of passionate lyricism, a plain heroine making her way in an unfriendly world -- but is in many other ways its inverse. ""Jane Eyre"" works in sharp black and white, while ""Villette"" works in psychological and even factual grey areas. Where Jane’s specialness is stipulated, despite her poverty and plain looks, the heroine of Villette, Lucy Snowe, is an unassuming figure who spends the majority of the novel as a quiet observer. Jane insists on her own agency, while"
"quest-narrative have led to much critical interest, particular with the ending of ""Jane Eyre"". Walt Willis and Bob Shaw's classic science fiction fan novelette, ""The Enchanted Duplicator"", is explicitly modeled on ""The Pilgrim's Progress"" and has been repeatedly reprinted over the decades since its first appearance in 1954: in professional publications, in fanzines, and as a monograph. Enid Blyton wrote ""The Land of Far Beyond"" (1942) as a children's version of ""The Pilgrim's Progress"". John Steinbeck's novel ""The Grapes of Wrath"" mentions ""The Pilgrim's Progress"" as one of an (anonymous) character's favorite books. Steinbeck's novel was itself an allegorical spiritual"
"in various animals, including humans, and Peter Brontë Gatenby, the Medical Director of the UN. Notes Footnotes Bibliography Brontë family The Brontës () were a nineteenth-century literary family, born in the village of Thornton and later associated with the village of Haworth in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England. The sisters, Charlotte (1816–1855), Emily (1818–1848), and Anne (1820–1849), are well known as poets and novelists. Like many contemporary female writers, they originally published their poems and novels under male pseudonyms: Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell. Their stories immediately attracted attention for their passion and originality. Charlotte's ""Jane Eyre"" was the"
"Lewis, and J. R. R. Tolkien, Seamus Heaney and Stephen King, among many others. Charlotte Brontë's character Jane Eyre is an important figure in illustrating heroines and their place within the Hero's Journey. Charlotte Brontë sought to craft a unique female character that the term ""Heroine"" could fully encompass. ""Jane Eyre"" is a ""Bildungsroman"", a coming-of-age story common in Victorian fiction, also referred to as an apprenticeship novel, that show moral and psychological development of the protagonist as they grow into adults. Jane being a Middle-class Victorian woman would face entirely different obstacles and conflict than her male counterparts of"
"written non-fiction, including two books that draw on his friendship with Jean Rhys (Lykiard is a long-time resident of Exeter, Devon, and would visit Rhys in the nearby village of Cheriton Fitzpaine, where she lived for the last two decades of her life): ""Jean Rhys Revisited"" (2000) and ""Jean Rhys: Afterwords"" (2006). Reviewing the former, Iain Sinclair characterised it as ""A haunted meditation...A proper tribute to the unjustly reforgotten, as well as an heroic version of the writer's life, the slanted autobiography"", while Chris Petit wrote in ""The Guardian"": Lykiard is a respected translator from French of avant-garde classics, including"
"Good Morning, Midnight (Rhys novel) Good Morning, Midnight is a 1939 modernist novel by the author Jean Rhys. Often considered a continuation of Rhys' three other early novels, ""Quartet"" (1928), ""After Leaving Mr Mackenzie"" (1930) and ""Voyage in the Dark"" (1934), it is experimental in design and deals with a woman's feelings of vulnerability, depression, loneliness and desperation during the years between the two World Wars. The book initially sold poorly—critics thought it well written, but too depressing—and after its publication Rhys spent a decade living in obscurity. It was not until it was adapted into a theatrical production in"