Jane Eyre

Synopsis:
Jane Eyre, orphaned, is left to live under the charity of her Aunt Reed. After living ten years of mistreatment and segregation in her Aunt's home, she is then sent to Lowood- a boarding school for young girls. Jane grows up both physically and mentally at Lowood and becomes a teacher at age eighteen. She then advertises for the position of a governess and is called upon by Mrs Fairfax at Thornfield. At Thornfield, Jane falls in love with the master, Mr Rochester, and he with her. However, he yields a terrible and dark secret that threatens to tear them apart for good. (Imdb- Emily)

Based on Charlotte Bronte's book.

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Ruth Wilson & Toby Stephens
(2006)

Charlotte Gainsbourg & William Hurt
(1996)

Samantha Morton & Ciaran Hinds
(1997)

Zelah Clarke & Timothy Dalton
(1983)


Fave quotes:

Jane: Do you think that I'm a machine? That I can bear it? Do you think because I'm poor, plain, obscure and little that I have no heart? That I'm without soul? I have as much heart as you and as much soul and if God had given me some beauty and wealth, I would make it as hard for you to leave me as it is now for me to leave you.

Rochester: There you are! You're back! Ungrateful thing, I give you leave for a week and you're gone a whole month! I want my money back, since you have me so little in your thoughts.
Jane Eyre: I said I was going to be gone for as long as I was needed. And I was. And you still owe me wages.

Rochester: Jane, I want a wife. I want a wife, not a nursemaid to look after me. I want a wife to share my bed every night. All day if we wish. If I can't have that, I'd rather die. We're not the platonic sort, Jane.
Jane Eyre: Can you see me?....Then hear this Edward. Your life is not yours to give up. It is mine. All mine. And I forbid it.

I dangers dared; I hindrance scorned; I omens did defy:
Whatever menaced, harassed, warned, I passed impetuous by.

Screencaps for 2006 film with Ruth Wilson & Toby Stephens

Authors and their Works

Some authors who have had their novels made into films or miniseries:

ALEXANDRE DUMAS
The Count of Monte Cristo, The Three Musketeers, The Man in the Iron Mask, La Reine Margot

ANTHONY TROLLOPE
The Way We Live Now, He Knew He Was Right, The Pallisers, The Barchester Chronicles

BRONTE SISTERS
Jane Eyre, Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Wuthering Heights

CATHERINE COOKSON
The Fifteen Streets, The Black Velvet Gown, The Cinder Path, The Dwelling Place, The Tide of Life, The Gambling Man, The Mallens, The Black Candle, The Man Who Cried, The Glass Virgin, The Girl, The Moth, The Rag Nymph, The Wingless Bird, Colour Blind, The Round Tower, Tilly Trotter, A Dinner of Herbs [read more]

CHARLES DICKENS
Bleak House, Great Expectations, Little Dorrit, Nicholas Nickleby, Old Curiosity Shop, Our Mutual Friend, Martin Chuzzlewit, David Copperfield, Oliver Twist

EDITH WHARTON
The Age of Innocence, The Buccaneers, House of Mirth, Ethan Frome

ELIZABETH GASKELL
North and South, Wives and Daughters, Cranford

GEORGE ELIOT
Daniel Deronda, Middlemarch, Mill on the Floss, Adam Bede

HENRY JAMES
Portrait of a Lady, Wings of the Dove, Washington Square, Golden Bowl, The Bostonians, The Europeans, The Heiress (same story as Washington Square)

JANE AUSTEN
Pride and Prejudice,Sense and Sensibility, Emma, Mansfield Park, Northanger abbey and Persuasion

JOHN GALSWORTHY
Forsyte Saga, A Summer Story

LUCY MAUDE MONTGOMERY
Anne of Green Gables, Road to Avonlea, Emily of New Moon, Lantern Hill

LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
Little Women, Little Men, The Inheritance, An Old Fashioned Thanksgiving, An Old Fashioned Christmas

OSCAR WILDE
Importance of Being Earnest, An Ideal Husband, A Woman of No Importance

THOMAS HARDY
Jude, Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Under the Greenwood Tree, The Mayor of Casterbridge, The Claim, Far from the Madding Crowd, The Woodlanders, The Scarlet Tunic, The Return of the Native, The Day after the Fair, The Withered Arm

VICTOR HUGO
Les Miserables, Hunchback of Notre Dame (Notre Dame de Paris)

WILKIE COLLINS
The Woman in White, The Moonstone



Lesser known...

ANN HOWARD CREEL -Magic of Ordinary Days

AUDREY NIFFENEGGER -The Time Traveller's Wife

ELIZABETH GOUDGE -The Little White Horse (The Secret of Moonacre)

ELIZABETH VON ARNIM -Enchanted April

JOHN BUCHAN -The 39 Steps

LUCY M. BOSTON -Children of Green Knowe (From Time to Time)

MORRIS WEST -The Shoes of the Fisherman