Who loves you best, whom you love best …
The sweet playfulness of Jane's relationship with Rochester, and, finally, the happy ending.
'That depends on circumstances, sir -...
A wanderer
Jane's days in the wilderness are terrifying, taking her close to 'death's door'.  The first refuge she finds from wandering...
Half-comprehended notions
I remember childhood dreams and hauntings of 'half-comprehended notions': cold war threats of nuclear annhilation, and being told the Soviet...
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...
Enlarging your destiny
The touching, palpable sense of expansion and hope that comes of being treated with respect and affection. This is a...
A quivering of shattered pinions
What a potent, heart-rending image of longing, echoing the Spanish word for lame or broken-winged, aliquebrado. See an earlier image...
Wave-girt land
A little old-fashioned, this 'girt', but still an unexpected way to speak of an island, focusing more on its surrounding...
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...
Hell and how to avoid it
Brontë's Jane Eyre plumbs depths of emotion both in the child and woman, but there is also a certain wry...
Blossom-blanched
One bright morning, this very one in fact, I sit down at my desk to start writing a batch of...
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...
Of billows and surges
A finely tumultuous image for turbulent and mixed emotions.
'Till morning dawned I was tossed on the buoyant but unquiet...
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