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Sunday, January 10, 2016

Diaries of the widow Rochester

Silver Birch Press posts a poem by Rose Mary Boehm on what could happen after Jane Eyre ends:

Epilogue Found in the Diaries of the Widow Rochester
(Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë)
by Rose Mary Boehm

Yes, reader, I married him.
A short while after our son was born
his obsessions began, and I recognized
his first wife’s despair. Edward, even though
no longer completely blind, did not ever fully regain
his sight and distrusted the world and me.
(Read the rest here)

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