November 3, 2026 at 10:46 PM
November 3, 2026 at 10:43 PM
November 3, 2026 at 5:26 PM
#Brontefest #Brontëfest Week 6: Charlotte's Jane Eyre, Ch28
-Nature as universal mother; Jane with nature, the universe, and herself
-Jane searches for shelter, work & food
-A rather biblical chapter (God, prayer, daily bread, good Samaritans, even ravens)
-House residents, languages & translation
-Nature as universal mother; Jane with nature, the universe, and herself
-Jane searches for shelter, work & food
-A rather biblical chapter (God, prayer, daily bread, good Samaritans, even ravens)
-House residents, languages & translation
November 5, 2026 at 1:30 AM
#Brontefest #Brontëfest Week 6: Charlotte's Jane Eyre, Ch28
-Nature as universal mother; Jane with nature, the universe, and herself
-Jane searches for shelter, work & food
-A rather biblical chapter (God, prayer, daily bread, good Samaritans, even ravens)
-House residents, languages & translation
-Nature as universal mother; Jane with nature, the universe, and herself
-Jane searches for shelter, work & food
-A rather biblical chapter (God, prayer, daily bread, good Samaritans, even ravens)
-House residents, languages & translation
#Brontefest #Brontëfest Week 6: Charlotte's Jane Eyre, Ch27
-A long goodbye; many thoughts of "good for her!"
-My marginalia: He's so Byronic, so flawed
-Mr R saw a "plot against me"
-Another mention of Eden
-He's very manipulative; Jane wants none of it
-A series of "I do" lines
-She's not little!
-A long goodbye; many thoughts of "good for her!"
-My marginalia: He's so Byronic, so flawed
-Mr R saw a "plot against me"
-Another mention of Eden
-He's very manipulative; Jane wants none of it
-A series of "I do" lines
-She's not little!
November 3, 2026 at 10:47 PM
#Brontefest #Brontëfest Week 6: Charlotte's Jane Eyre, Ch27
-A long goodbye; many thoughts of "good for her!"
-My marginalia: He's so Byronic, so flawed
-Mr R saw a "plot against me"
-Another mention of Eden
-He's very manipulative; Jane wants none of it
-A series of "I do" lines
-She's not little!
-A long goodbye; many thoughts of "good for her!"
-My marginalia: He's so Byronic, so flawed
-Mr R saw a "plot against me"
-Another mention of Eden
-He's very manipulative; Jane wants none of it
-A series of "I do" lines
-She's not little!
„Your pity, my darling, is the suffering mother of love: its anguish is the very natal pang of the divine passion.”
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Charlotte Brontë
Jane Eyre C27
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Charlotte Brontë
Jane Eyre C27
November 2, 2026 at 7:24 PM
„Your pity, my darling, is the suffering mother of love: its anguish is the very natal pang of the divine passion.”
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Charlotte Brontë
Jane Eyre C27
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Charlotte Brontë
Jane Eyre C27
Nature seemed to me benign and good; I thought she loved me, outcast as I was; and I, who from man could anticipate only mistrust, rejection, insult, clung to her with filial fondness.
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Jane Eyre C28
Charlotte Brontë
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Jane Eyre C28
Charlotte Brontë
November 4, 2026 at 10:32 PM
Nature seemed to me benign and good; I thought she loved me, outcast as I was; and I, who from man could anticipate only mistrust, rejection, insult, clung to her with filial fondness.
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Jane Eyre C28
Charlotte Brontë
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Jane Eyre C28
Charlotte Brontë
The repetition produces a dizzying effect.
“Her relatives encouraged me: competitors piqued me: she allured me: a marriage was achieved almost before I knew where I was.”
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“Her relatives encouraged me: competitors piqued me: she allured me: a marriage was achieved almost before I knew where I was.”
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November 3, 2026 at 10:39 PM
The repetition produces a dizzying effect.
“Her relatives encouraged me: competitors piqued me: she allured me: a marriage was achieved almost before I knew where I was.”
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“Her relatives encouraged me: competitors piqued me: she allured me: a marriage was achieved almost before I knew where I was.”
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„It was half dream, half reality”
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Charlotte Brontë
Jane Eyre C25
wood engravings by Fritz Eichenberg
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Charlotte Brontë
Jane Eyre C25
wood engravings by Fritz Eichenberg
October 30, 2026 at 1:37 PM
„It was half dream, half reality”
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Charlotte Brontë
Jane Eyre C25
wood engravings by Fritz Eichenberg
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Charlotte Brontë
Jane Eyre C25
wood engravings by Fritz Eichenberg
#Brontefest #Brontëfest Week 6: Charlotte's Jane Eyre
Hello, readers!
Nov2-3: Ch27
Nov4: Ch28
Nov5: Ch29
Nov6: Ch30
Nov7: Ch31
A bit more reading than usual this time but we can have a long weekend next week if need be. I'm engrossed & always want to stay up & read to the end! Thanks for reading!
Hello, readers!
Nov2-3: Ch27
Nov4: Ch28
Nov5: Ch29
Nov6: Ch30
Nov7: Ch31
A bit more reading than usual this time but we can have a long weekend next week if need be. I'm engrossed & always want to stay up & read to the end! Thanks for reading!
October 31, 2026 at 7:55 PM
#Brontefest #Brontëfest Week 6: Charlotte's Jane Eyre
Hello, readers!
Nov2-3: Ch27
Nov4: Ch28
Nov5: Ch29
Nov6: Ch30
Nov7: Ch31
A bit more reading than usual this time but we can have a long weekend next week if need be. I'm engrossed & always want to stay up & read to the end! Thanks for reading!
Hello, readers!
Nov2-3: Ch27
Nov4: Ch28
Nov5: Ch29
Nov6: Ch30
Nov7: Ch31
A bit more reading than usual this time but we can have a long weekend next week if need be. I'm engrossed & always want to stay up & read to the end! Thanks for reading!
„fate has out-manoeuvred me; or Providence has checked me, — perhaps the last.”
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Charlotte Brontë
Jane Eyre C26
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Charlotte Brontë
Jane Eyre C26
October 31, 2026 at 4:21 PM
„fate has out-manoeuvred me; or Providence has checked me, — perhaps the last.”
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Charlotte Brontë
Jane Eyre C26
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Charlotte Brontë
Jane Eyre C26
A mile off, beyond the fields, lay a road which stretched in the contrary direction to Millcote; a road I had never travelled, but often noticed, and wondered where it led: thither I bent my steps.
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Jane Eyre C27
Charlotte Brontë
The conversation between J & R is too long, tedious.
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Jane Eyre C27
Charlotte Brontë
The conversation between J & R is too long, tedious.
November 3, 2026 at 5:20 PM
A mile off, beyond the fields, lay a road which stretched in the contrary direction to Millcote; a road I had never travelled, but often noticed, and wondered where it led: thither I bent my steps.
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Jane Eyre C27
Charlotte Brontë
The conversation between J & R is too long, tedious.
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Jane Eyre C27
Charlotte Brontë
The conversation between J & R is too long, tedious.
„Whitcross is no town, nor even a hamlet; it is but a stone pillar set up where four roads meet: white-washed, I suppose to be more obvious at a distance and in darkness.”
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Charlotte Brontë
Jane Eyre C28
wood engravings by Fritz Eichenberg
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Charlotte Brontë
Jane Eyre C28
wood engravings by Fritz Eichenberg
November 4, 2026 at 12:52 PM
„Whitcross is no town, nor even a hamlet; it is but a stone pillar set up where four roads meet: white-washed, I suppose to be more obvious at a distance and in darkness.”
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Charlotte Brontë
Jane Eyre C28
wood engravings by Fritz Eichenberg
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Charlotte Brontë
Jane Eyre C28
wood engravings by Fritz Eichenberg
#Brontefest #Brontëfest Wk 5: Charlotte's Jane Eyre, Ch 26
-Rather odd to have no wedding guests & Mr R seems hurried
-Men lingering by the churchyard
-Then a surprise & the return of Mr Mason
-An odd visit
-Oh, Jane... An extended water theme to end the chapter with "the floods overflowed me."
-Rather odd to have no wedding guests & Mr R seems hurried
-Men lingering by the churchyard
-Then a surprise & the return of Mr Mason
-An odd visit
-Oh, Jane... An extended water theme to end the chapter with "the floods overflowed me."
October 31, 2026 at 8:01 PM
#Brontefest #Brontëfest Wk 5: Charlotte's Jane Eyre, Ch 26
-Rather odd to have no wedding guests & Mr R seems hurried
-Men lingering by the churchyard
-Then a surprise & the return of Mr Mason
-An odd visit
-Oh, Jane... An extended water theme to end the chapter with "the floods overflowed me."
-Rather odd to have no wedding guests & Mr R seems hurried
-Men lingering by the churchyard
-Then a surprise & the return of Mr Mason
-An odd visit
-Oh, Jane... An extended water theme to end the chapter with "the floods overflowed me."
October 30, 2026 at 7:41 PM
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"It was not without a certain wild pleasure I ran before the wind, delivering my trouble of mind to the measureless air-torrent thundering through space."
"...I had enjoyed so much bliss lately that I imagined my fortune had passed its meridian, and must now decline."
"It was not without a certain wild pleasure I ran before the wind, delivering my trouble of mind to the measureless air-torrent thundering through space."
"...I had enjoyed so much bliss lately that I imagined my fortune had passed its meridian, and must now decline."
October 31, 2026 at 1:16 AM
#Brontefest #Brontëfest
"It was not without a certain wild pleasure I ran before the wind, delivering my trouble of mind to the measureless air-torrent thundering through space."
"...I had enjoyed so much bliss lately that I imagined my fortune had passed its meridian, and must now decline."
"It was not without a certain wild pleasure I ran before the wind, delivering my trouble of mind to the measureless air-torrent thundering through space."
"...I had enjoyed so much bliss lately that I imagined my fortune had passed its meridian, and must now decline."
Brontë uses violent images to emphasize separation.
“you shall yourself pluck out your right eye; yourself cut off your right hand”
“then I should not have to make the effort of cracking my heart-strings in rending them from among Mr Rochester’s.
“your heart has been weeping blood”
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“you shall yourself pluck out your right eye; yourself cut off your right hand”
“then I should not have to make the effort of cracking my heart-strings in rending them from among Mr Rochester’s.
“your heart has been weeping blood”
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November 3, 2026 at 10:34 PM
Brontë uses violent images to emphasize separation.
“you shall yourself pluck out your right eye; yourself cut off your right hand”
“then I should not have to make the effort of cracking my heart-strings in rending them from among Mr Rochester’s.
“your heart has been weeping blood”
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“you shall yourself pluck out your right eye; yourself cut off your right hand”
“then I should not have to make the effort of cracking my heart-strings in rending them from among Mr Rochester’s.
“your heart has been weeping blood”
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#Brontefest #Brontëfest Wk 5: Charlotte's Jane Eyre, Ch 25
-Mr R heads off on biz just before the wedding
-Weather as omen
-Jane tells Mr R "You sir, are the most phantom-like of all: you are a mere dream."
-Jane mentions "Fairfax Rochester's pride"
-Weird dreams
-Mr R gaslights Jane
-Plot thickens
-Mr R heads off on biz just before the wedding
-Weather as omen
-Jane tells Mr R "You sir, are the most phantom-like of all: you are a mere dream."
-Jane mentions "Fairfax Rochester's pride"
-Weird dreams
-Mr R gaslights Jane
-Plot thickens
October 30, 2026 at 10:48 PM
#Brontefest #Brontëfest Wk 5: Charlotte's Jane Eyre, Ch 25
-Mr R heads off on biz just before the wedding
-Weather as omen
-Jane tells Mr R "You sir, are the most phantom-like of all: you are a mere dream."
-Jane mentions "Fairfax Rochester's pride"
-Weird dreams
-Mr R gaslights Jane
-Plot thickens
-Mr R heads off on biz just before the wedding
-Weather as omen
-Jane tells Mr R "You sir, are the most phantom-like of all: you are a mere dream."
-Jane mentions "Fairfax Rochester's pride"
-Weird dreams
-Mr R gaslights Jane
-Plot thickens
The night before Jane’s wedding, another important event, and more references to midnight.
“It is near midnight.”
“It struck twelve.”
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“It is near midnight.”
“It struck twelve.”
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October 30, 2026 at 7:58 PM
The night before Jane’s wedding, another important event, and more references to midnight.
“It is near midnight.”
“It struck twelve.”
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“It is near midnight.”
“It struck twelve.”
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“Everything in life seems unreal.”
Starts with the wedding outfit (vapoury veil,” “wraith-like apparel”) and continues throughout the chapter.
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Starts with the wedding outfit (vapoury veil,” “wraith-like apparel”) and continues throughout the chapter.
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October 30, 2026 at 7:57 PM
“Everything in life seems unreal.”
Starts with the wedding outfit (vapoury veil,” “wraith-like apparel”) and continues throughout the chapter.
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Starts with the wedding outfit (vapoury veil,” “wraith-like apparel”) and continues throughout the chapter.
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"Stay till he comes, reader; and, when I disclose my secret to him, you shall share the confidence."
Charlotte Brontë telling us to pay attention; it's gonna get good.
"Stay till he comes, reader; and, when I disclose my secret to him, you shall share the confidence."
Charlotte Brontë telling us to pay attention; it's gonna get good.
October 31, 2026 at 1:13 AM
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"Stay till he comes, reader; and, when I disclose my secret to him, you shall share the confidence."
Charlotte Brontë telling us to pay attention; it's gonna get good.
"Stay till he comes, reader; and, when I disclose my secret to him, you shall share the confidence."
Charlotte Brontë telling us to pay attention; it's gonna get good.
Lots of personification in this chapter.
• “Conscience, turned tyrant, held Passion by the throat, told her tauntingly, she had yet but dipped her dainty feet in the slough, and swore that with that arm of iron he would thrust her down to unsounded depths of agony.”
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• “Conscience, turned tyrant, held Passion by the throat, told her tauntingly, she had yet but dipped her dainty feet in the slough, and swore that with that arm of iron he would thrust her down to unsounded depths of agony.”
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November 3, 2026 at 10:19 PM
Lots of personification in this chapter.
• “Conscience, turned tyrant, held Passion by the throat, told her tauntingly, she had yet but dipped her dainty feet in the slough, and swore that with that arm of iron he would thrust her down to unsounded depths of agony.”
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• “Conscience, turned tyrant, held Passion by the throat, told her tauntingly, she had yet but dipped her dainty feet in the slough, and swore that with that arm of iron he would thrust her down to unsounded depths of agony.”
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“On sleeping, I continued in dreams the idea of a dark and gusty night.”
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It was a dark and stormy night - Wikipedia
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October 30, 2026 at 8:01 PM
“On sleeping, I continued in dreams the idea of a dark and gusty night.”
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1. What a still, hot, perfect day! What a golden desert this spreading moor!
2. I must struggle on: strive to live and bend to toil like the rest.
3. ...the friendly numbness of death...
P3C2 Jane Eyre #Brontefest Poor Jane! Not an ignis fatuus; did she just meet the actual Bronte sisters? 😀
2. I must struggle on: strive to live and bend to toil like the rest.
3. ...the friendly numbness of death...
P3C2 Jane Eyre #Brontefest Poor Jane! Not an ignis fatuus; did she just meet the actual Bronte sisters? 😀
November 4, 2026 at 3:01 PM
1. What a still, hot, perfect day! What a golden desert this spreading moor!
2. I must struggle on: strive to live and bend to toil like the rest.
3. ...the friendly numbness of death...
P3C2 Jane Eyre #Brontefest Poor Jane! Not an ignis fatuus; did she just meet the actual Bronte sisters? 😀
2. I must struggle on: strive to live and bend to toil like the rest.
3. ...the friendly numbness of death...
P3C2 Jane Eyre #Brontefest Poor Jane! Not an ignis fatuus; did she just meet the actual Bronte sisters? 😀
“this young girl, who stands so grave and quiet at the mouth of hell, looking collectedly at the gambols of a demon, I wanted her just as a change after that fierce ragout.”
(Rochester after the foiled marriage to Jane. Not exactly a testament of love.)
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Jane Eyre C26
Charlotte Brontë
(Rochester after the foiled marriage to Jane. Not exactly a testament of love.)
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Jane Eyre C26
Charlotte Brontë
October 31, 2026 at 4:46 PM
“this young girl, who stands so grave and quiet at the mouth of hell, looking collectedly at the gambols of a demon, I wanted her just as a change after that fierce ragout.”
(Rochester after the foiled marriage to Jane. Not exactly a testament of love.)
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Jane Eyre C26
Charlotte Brontë
(Rochester after the foiled marriage to Jane. Not exactly a testament of love.)
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Jane Eyre C26
Charlotte Brontë