The Naples Bicentenary Event in pictures

Bicentenary in Naples, Italy

A mayor conference organized by the Italian Ministero dei Beni Culturali was held in Naples at the National Library with Maddalena De Leo and Caterina Lerro as speakers Prof. De Leo read her interesting paper about Charlotte’s heroines in Juvenilia and in the novels mainly pointing to the differences existing between the first and the second group of them, Prof. Lerro spoke of the meaning of Jane Eyre as a novel, commenting three of its most important pages (the incipit – the meeting with Rochester – ‘Reader, I married him’) also with the help of her students who played them. Great success and an enthusiastic public welcomed the event.