Jane Eyre dreams of the Canary Islands

The local press has helped us solve the mystery of Maspalomas, on the Canary Islands, being used as a filming location in the new BBC production of Jane Eyre. Fortunately it's not their means of cutting down on the budget by not really going all the way to the West Indies!

Seven Island Films has recently succeeded in bringing Georgie Henley - the child actress of the moment due to her role as Lucy Pevensie in The Chronicles of Narnia - to shoot on the dunes of Maspalomas the beginning of a four-episode TV series for the BBC based on the novel Jane Eyre.
From dream to island reality
The film opens with the young protagonist dreaming of a desert of orange dunes and blue sea which the director of the production, Susanna White, located in San Bartolomé de Tirajana (picture of Maspalomas dunes in San Bartolomé de Tirajana, source).

We quite picture it now as a good beginning, though it is quite the opposite of young Jane's actual daydream at the beginning of the novel, where she pictures cold, northern places instead of this warm and sunny location. Maybe the writer is introducing Angrian landscapes, creating a subtext that parallels Jane Eyre's childhood dreams and Charlotte Brontë's ones?

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