![]() A man has needs, don’t you know? Hence the three mistresses and the attempted bigamy.) Rochester knows he’s bad news but he rather thinks that he gets a pass on his bad behaviour because…well…he’s rich and upper-class. (Okay, it’s more like Jane knows she’s a fool. This initially harsh reaction is salvaged by the author letting both of her main characters disarmingly confess the above about themselves a number of times. I do wonder what my younger self would have thought about it? I suspect much the same as my older self does: Rochester is bad, bad news, and Jane, you’re a fool. (There was this conflagration…)Ĭonfession time: I have never read this book before, not even in my library-haunting adolescence when I tackled so many of the weighty greats. ![]() She runs away, finds shelter with a stern clergyman’s family, inherits a fortune, has a moral crisis, and passionately races her way back to Rochester’s now-mutilated arms. Romantic sparks fly, despite a series of disturbing nocturnal events, and Jane is at the altar when an appalling allegation is made and everything is off. Wee orphan Jane is despised by her only (that she knows about) relations and ends up in a charity-girl’s school, where she emerges at the age of 18 to take on a governess post to the illegitimate ward of the moody Mr.Let’s see if I can pull off a 100-word summation: ![]()
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