Help, please... if you have NOT read Jane Eyre.

[mer]

...Or, if you remember what you thought it was about before you read it.

Those of you who have not read Jane Eyre, nor seen the movie, could you summarize in the comments for me what you think the book is about... with specifics regarding plot... and what your occupation is? And how/what other Victorian literature you have read instead?

I realize this is a weird request, but it's research for a book. I promise.


When I asked my husband the question, he said, "It's about women. And there's yammering. Because they can't marry who they want to marry." He's a computer guy. I couldn't even guess what Victorian literature he's read, but I'd suspect it's like one work of Dickens forced on him in school.

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[cicer.livejournal.com]

Never read the book or seen the movie, so I only know about this secondhand. I'm writing this out before reading other comments, so if I'm repeating stuff or misremembering details, sorry!

Um. Isn't it about some impoverished woman who goes to work as a governess for some guy and falls in love with him? But then he has a crazy ex-wife locked up in the attic. And then she leaves, the house burns down, but she comes back and he'd mangled but she loves him anyway? The end? Am I even close?

[cicer.livejournal.com]

Just read the Wikipedia summary. Hey, I got more stuff right than I thought!

[cicer.livejournal.com]

Oh, oops. Didn't see the other questions. Reading comprehension, I do not has it.

I'm a college student (creative writing major, if that's relevant). I haven't read much Victorian lit, other than Jane Austen.

ETA: Ah, wait. I see other people are counting Poe, Yeats, and Carroll as Victorian lit, and I've read all of them.

[merriehaskell.livejournal.com]

Thanks! It's not a test, but a survey, but if it were a test, you did well. :)