Brontë Valentine(s)

In case you thought just one film wasn't enough to get your romanticism doses high up for St Valentines, USA Weekend Magazine now deems Jane Eyre as the most romantic book:

Book: "Jane Eyre"
Says who? Romance author Nora Roberts "It's got it all," Roberts says of the Charlotte Bronte classic. "The brooding, complicated hero with a secret, the forthright, intelligent heroine, compelling atmosphere, brilliant writing, the complicated and romantic meeting of two minds and hearts -- and the mad woman in the attic."

No need to tell us that - we already knew it's definitely got it all :)

Be careful, though, because this is what author Joanna Trollope thinks about Mr Rochester:

In Charlotte Brontë she found a writer who gave women permission to have an inner life. But while she very much admired Jane Eyre, she thinks, Mr Rochester "would have been quite dull in the sack".

Where did she get that from?! ;)

In the Washington Post we found a list elaborated by Book World's editors with a dozen of favourites on the pain of love:

Wuthering Heights , by Emily Brontë. Gothic romance endures in the haunting love story of stubborn, stormy Catherine and wild, dark Heathcliff. This is a classic tale of "what becomes of the brokenhearted who had love that's now departed," made all the more heartbreaking by the fact that Brontë died in 1848, just a year after the book was published.

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