Life-giving elixir
These fine-minded sisters come into an inheritance adequate to free them from having to face the economic implications of remaining...
Of signs, sympathies and presentiments
Still unravelling the mystery on this one, and enjoy the playfulness and acuity with which we appear to 'pick up'...
Shock and reverberation
Charlotte Brontë captures the lasting impression of fear and injustice, and the emotional outrage caused by both, in a child...
Gold-ringed eyes
Jane Eyre's curious aquiline simile to describe the blinded eyes of the man she loves.
'The caged eagle,...
Marrow-freezing
Jane Eyre, first as a child and later as a woman, is subjected to a number of 'marrow-freezing incidents' some...
Blossom-blanched
One bright morning, this very one in fact, I sit down at my desk to start writing a batch of...
Outlandish-looking grammar
Although I've managed to master a couple of foreign languages, outlandish-looking grammar has so far stymied my repeated, and repeatedly...
Wave-girt land
A little old-fashioned, this 'girt', but still an unexpected way to speak of an island, focusing more on its surrounding...
Light-footed running
One of the qualities Rochester loves and admires in Jane is her uprightness. While willing to help him in any...
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...
Half-blown rose
Something touching about the 'half-blown', that moment in a rose's beauty when it is heavy with the weight of its...
Low-gliding and pale-beaming
We are early enough in the year for the sun to still be 'low-gliding' in the sky and 'pale-beaming' in...
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