A Spirit's Triumph

More reviews of Sheila Kohler's Becoming Jane Eyre. This one comes from Associated Press:

Charlotte Bronte was a dutiful daughter of the Victorian age. Her best-known character, Jane Eyre, endures as a woman who transcends time and social order. How Charlotte released Jane into the world is the subject of Sheila Kohler's new novel, "Becoming Jane Eyre." (...)
Kohler illuminates how Charlotte created a character who could act on the emotions she was forced to suppress. Jane says - loudly, brazenly - all the things Charlotte cannot say.
Charlotte's imagination was the one place where she was not bound by decorum. Her unrequited love, her loneliness, the indignity of dependence, her rage at her inability to express herself openly - even to her father - all feed the story of a young governess who will not be overlooked.
"Becoming Jane Eyre," rather than dwelling on a family's tragedies, shows a spirit's triumph.

You can read the Kirkus Review of the novel on the author's website.

On the blogosphere there's more activity: MonsterHouse reviews Jane Eyre 1944. Both Aneca's World and Zubon Book Reviews post about Agnes Grey (the first one more positively than the second one), life:and:lim talks about her reading of Wuthering Heights, Alas de Papel devotes a post to the Brontës (in Spanish). Finally, Medieval Woman: Blogging with Historical Fiction Writer Susan Higginbotham posts a very positive review of Jude Morgan's The Taste of Sorrow.

Categories: Agnes Grey, Books, Fiction, Jane Eyre, Movies-DVD-TV