A perfect summary of Jane Eyre

Express looks at Gentleman Jack's filming locations.

While it's believed that talks with the BBC could lead to a revival of the much-loved show in the future, with Sally vowing that she hadn't closed the door on it, fans of the show can keep the memory alive with a visit to its filming location. Shibden Hall, set in the picturesque Shibden Valley just a mile from the West Yorkshire city of Halifax, was the real-life home of Anne Lister back in the 1800s.

It's no surprise, then, that it was chosen for the first season of Gentleman Jack. It isn't the first time the stunning medieval manor house - officially a Grade II listed building - has been used to bring TV dramas to life.

Sally Wainwright's previous historical drama about the Brontë sisters, To Walk Invisible, was filmed there in 2016, while it was even the location for the 1992 film version of Wuthering Heights. Prior to that, it was the scene of a groundbreaking Bollywood horror movie titled 1921. (Chloe Govan)

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Movie: Jane Eyre (2011)

TV series: Jane Eyre (2006)

For over 170 years since its publication in 1847, Charlotte Brontë’s epic story of the eponymous Jane Eyre has captivated fans of romance like no other work from its time. Brontë redefined the art of storytelling by writing the book in first person and often broke the fourth wall so that readers felt a deeper connection to Jane.

Brontë’s Jane overcomes the curveballs that life has thrown at her since childhood and grows into a confident young woman. Appointed as a governess at Thornfield Hall, she meets and falls in love with her employer, Edward Rochester. Though both are deeply in love with each other, they cannot marry because Rochester is already married. Torn between her desires and her moral dilemma, Jane is forced to leave Edward. But then a tragedy strikes which changes everything in the lives of the two.

Adapted numerous times since the silent film era, an early hit movie based on the book was the 1943 talkie starring Joan Fontaine as Jane and Orson Welles as Rochester. In recent years, Cary Fukunaga’s 2011 film of the same name succeeded in making critics take note. Starring Mia Wasikowska as Jane and Michael Fassbender as Rochester, the film earned an Oscar nod for costume design.

Among the TV shows, the four-part BBC TV drama of 2006 starring Ruth Wilson as Jane and Toby Stephens as Rochester has been extremely well received. The drama was nominated for multiple BAFTA TV and Primetime Emmy awards, winning one in the former and three in the latter. Wilson, too, was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film. (Manas Sen Gupta)

Collegiate Times discusses whether generative AI is incompatible with the goals of education.

ChatGPT, at least in a superficial sense, can perform many of the higher-level thinking skills that were once the domain of human beings alone. With minimal student direction, it can create, from its endless wealth of human inputs, a perfect summary of “Jane Eyre” and craft an essay on the novel’s major themes in a pleasant, disembodied voice. Naturally, these capabilities carry the potential for misuse. (Chris Donaldson)