Hearth, Heath and a short film review

A couple of new scholarly Brontë appearances:

Hearth and Heath 

Inner and Outer Spaces in Jane Eyre 

Bansari Mitra, Wentworth Institute of Technology, Boston

Folklore Fellows’ Network Bulletin 57, November 2023

Charlotte Brontë’s heroine, Jane Eyre, has a lively verbal skirmish here with the hero, Mr. Rochester. She speaks boldly to him because they can think along the same lines, whereas Mrs. Fairfax, the housekeeper, is at a loss. Her prosaic simplicity contrasts sharply with Rochester’s quick perception of Jane, because he is the only person who detects an unearthly quality in her, “fairy-born and human-bred.” Mrs. Fairfax cannot fathom these depths in her. The lack of empathy between a maternal figure and Jane creates the central conflict in the novel. This passage gives us a clue to the theme of inadequate mothers.

And a review of the short film The Death of Anne Brontë: 

Barth, Kathleen, directora. The Death of Anne Brontë, distribuidora independiente, 2022

Paloma Ríos Prieto

Babel–AFIAL: Aspectos de Filoloxía Inglesa e Alemá, No 32 (2023 ), pp 137-142