Novella review: The Turn of the Screw by Henry James (1898) The opening of this Victorian novella is that it’s someone listening to a friend
Book review: The Flight of Gemma Hardy by Margot Livesey (HarperCollins, 2012) To Gemma’s delight, the school goes bankrupt, and she takes a job as
Book review: Claire’s Not-So-Gothic Romance by Bonnie Blythe (Amazon Kindle, 2010) Claire Parnell, plain, repressed, and broke, falls desperately in love with Sam Murray, the
Book review: It All Began with Jane Eyre or The Secret Life of Franny Dillman by Sheila Greenwald (Dell Publishing: A Yearling Book, 1987 [1980])
Film review: Jane Eyre (2011), directed by Cary Fukanaga Jane Eyre finally hits UK screens today, only six months after it was first brought out
TV miniseries review: Jane Eyre (2006), directed by Susanna White, adapted by Sandy Welch The most recent Jane Eyre adaptation to come out before Cary
Book review: The Forbidden Innocent by Sharon Kendrick (Mills & Boon [Modern Romance], 2011 [2010]) New bride at Blackwood Manor? Having spent her childhood in
I love the richness of detail in Jane Eyre. Charlotte Brontë weaves Jane’s inner life and her outer surroundings into a tapestry of emotion, physical
Book review: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë (Puffin Classics: The Essential Collection, 1994 [1847]) Mystery, hardship – and love Orphaned Jane Eyre, hated by her