Grace Poole by Pam Ferris

The BBC Jane Eyre website still offers some surprises. Now you can find a background story for the Grace Poole character written by Pam Ferris, the actress that plays her role in the BBC production:

I've always though of London as my home, but when I went back a few years ago, I didn't like it at all. Don't know why. Maybe it had changed. Or I had. Being up here, in this wild place, listening to their funny way of talking, I'd always felt like some kind of foreigner, but this is my home now, and I can't think of a better one.

I was born in the Royal Hospital of Bethlehem - Borough of Southwark. It wasn't that unusual for babies to be born there. "Where there's a will there's a way," the keepers used to say, and sometimes it seemed there were as many men trying to break in as there were mad women trying to break out. (Read more)

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