My experience of Jane Eyre began in a school library, I picked up a very slim volume that promised an exciting story about romance and madness. I borrowed the book and took it home. “You are not reading THAT!” my mother insisted. She hated abridged books and could see from a glance that the copy I’d just borrowed was abridged almost to nothing. That evening she sat down on her bed, I lay along the end of it, and she began to read from her own copy which had not been damaged by any abridgement. I was hooked from the first minutes and have adored the novel ever since. The next day, the unread and seriously abridged version was returned to the school library.

I adore the love story, I rejoice in Jane’s strength through all adversity, I love the characters and the superb evocations of nature. Jane Eyre is a truly great classic, a novel that demands to be read at different times of one’s life – as teenager, as mature reader, in old age. It is only through many re-readings that one can come to fully appreciate this great novel.

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Featured image credit- Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre. Michael Fassbender and Mia Wasikowska in Jane Eyre (2011), https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1229822/