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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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Listen to songs of Jane Eyre the Musical

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Screencaps can be found here

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

Possession

Based on the novel of the same name by A. S. Byatt. The film tells the story of two scholars, Roland Michell (played by Aaron Eckhart) and Maud Bailey (Gwyneth Paltrow), who investigate the affair of fictional Victorian era poet Randolph Henry Ash (Jeremy Northam), described in letters between him and another fictional poet, Christabel LaMotte (Jennifer Ehle).

Roland Michell is an Americian trying to make it in the difficult world of British Academics. He has yet to break out from under his mentor's shadow until he finds a pair of love letters in the textbook that once belonged to one of his idols, a famous long dead Victorian poet. Michell, after some sleuthing around, narrows down the suspects to a woman not his wife, another well known Victorian poet. Roland enlists the aid of a Dr. Maud Bailey, an expert on the life of the woman in question. Together they piece together the story of a forbidden love affair, and discover one of their own. They also find themselves in a battle to hold on to their discovery before it falls into the hands of their rival, Fergus Wolfe (Toby Stephens).Written by C.D.@IMDB

Christabel Lamotte and Randolph Henry Ash
[Jennifer Ehle and Jeremy Northam]

Maud Bailey (Gwyneth Paltrow)
and Roland Michell (played by Aaron Eckhart)

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The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

Based on a little known 1848 novel by Anne Bronte, Tara Fitzgerald stars as an enigmatic young woman who moves to 19th Century Yorkshire with a young son. Distancing herself from everyone in the village and their prying questions, she remains totally aloof until a charming neighbor farmer gets her to reveal her past through his persistence. Only then does she reveal she is hiding away from a womanizing, belittling husband. ( Written by John Sacksteder Imdb)