Literary Hub goes in search of the 'Wild Girls of Literature', which apparently include
Jane Eyre (but not Cathy from
Wuthering Heights who famously wished she was' a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free').
Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë
How can I end this list without Jane, for who is wilder than Jane? I found Jane Eyre on a library shelf when I was in middle school—the same age my students are now. I was in my own period of dark stillness then, and Jane presented a wholly new (to me) alternative to the girl-protagonists I had loved before her. Prickly and plain, blunt-spoken and too moody, Jane felt to me like a kind of soulmate, a literary mirror. She refuses capture again and again, unyielding in her need to understand herself above all else. My book takes its epigraph from Brontë, Atalanta’s and Bernadette’s story beginning with Jane’s call to freedom: “I am no bird, and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will, which I now exert to leave you.” When she eventually returns to Rochester at the close of the novel, it is not as a submission, but as a partner. She tells her reader that it is she who leads him, taking his hand to walk the first steps into their new life. “We entered the wood,” she tells her reader, “and wended homeward.” Home, Jane Eyre reminds the reader, is always and only where the self can be free—on the other side of the dark wood. (Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum)
Vulture and others report that Greta Gerwig has managed to persuade Netflix to give her take on Narnia a theatrical release and they think that,
Maybe the burn of losing Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights because it refused to commit to a theatrical release stung too bad to shake. (Jason P. Frank)
We don't know as much about her as we do about her sisters, Charlotte and Emily. (Garrison Keillor)
We definitely know more about Anne than we do about Emily.
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