Fairy-like fingers
Mr. Rochester falls in love with Jane: her excellent mind and independent spirit, as well as her petite proportions, here...
Silver-white foliage
Not the silver white of leaves but of filigree-fractals frosting a window pane, a sight rarely seen since the advent...
Hard-wrung pledge
This is a generous comment on Jane Eyre's wicked stepmother, whose husband extracts a promise from her on his death-bed,...
Hill-sent echo
An inexplicable and even supernatural moment in the book that proves a turning point, snapping Jane out of her acquiescence...
A plain without bounds
Again, a reference to a cramped and constraining existence and her desperate need to escape its shackles.  I had remembered...
Spike-guarded walls
The underlying theme of Jane Eyre is her refusal to be penned in by spike-guarded walls, real or metaphorical, and her...
The Wuthering Heights manuscript
While visiting the Bronte Parsonage, I was touched by a project led by the artist Clare Twomey, to celebrate the...
Of freedom and flight
Again, Mr. Rochester has to face the fact that the more he tries to bind Jane to him, the more...
Affluence of life and certainty of flow
How about that for a well-wishing phrase to fling into the world! May you enjoy both affluence of life and...
A visit to the Brontes
When I read the journals of Dorothy Wordsworth I had a yearning to visit the Wordsworth homes in the Lake...
Heart and soul
As we begin to grapple with the implications of artificial intelligence and robots, this allusion more than 150 years ago...
Of love and kindness
Jane Eyre boils down to two powerful essential needs: to give and receive love amply, and to have the liberty...
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