Vanessa Zoltan is a trailblazer in the spheres of religion as well as literary criticism. A self-proclaimed “atheist Jew” chaplain, she explains in her new book, “Praying With Jane Eyre: Reflections ...
But all through the book, Jane refuses to smile. That isn't to say that she's never happy (although you wouldn't be super chipper, either, if you were an orphan forced to go to an evil school where ...
The first time I read Jane Eyre, I hated it. I was in sixth grade, and all I can remember thinking is, “Why does this character continuously mention how she’s not beautiful?” Years later, I decided to ...
Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Following the mishaps and misfortunes of the title character, the show tracks ...
Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...
ONE OF THE great thrills of reading is encountering a situation that is familiar in feeling yet alien in context. So it is on reaching chapter nine of “Jane Eyre”, in which the narrator, a ...
Charlotte Brontë was a 20-year-old schoolteacher — impatient, dreamy, long-suffering, unpublished — when, in 1836, she sent a sample of her writing to Robert Southey, England’s poet laureate. Although ...
Enough with the empire waistlines, the sparkly dialogue, the pride, the prejudice, the Colin Firth trudging out of the lake again and again on the late-night minithons on A&E. Enough with all that.
Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. ArtsWest gives new life to an old story with its production of JANE EYRE. The ...
Charlotte Bronte’s original 1847 novel Jane Eyre is not exactly what you might call an uplifting story. While not quite as bleak as her sister Emily’s work, Wuthering Heights, it is still not a story ...
There's a vast gulf between adapting a gothic period romance and connecting with a modern audience. Director Cary Fukunaga doesn't give a damn about that gulf and his adaptation of Charlotte Bronte's ...
Michael Fassbender, Jamie Bell co-star in "Sin Nombre" helmer Cary Joji Fukunaga's take on Charlotte Bronte's 1847 novel. By Todd McCarthy Between 1910 and 1996, 18 feature films based on Charlotte ...