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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[merriehaskell.livejournal.com]

Huh. I wonder what version that is... The scene is supposed to go that they're at the altar together, someone comes up and says there's an impediment to the marriage, and Rochester totally pulls a Humperdink and is like "Skip to the end!" but the priest is all, "Dude. There's an impediment." And they all troop up to the attic (in the movies it's the attic, in the book, it's just upstairs) and there's a crazy woman romping around, and Rochester goes, "Take my wife... please!"

(Or something like that.)