Patrick Bronte and Maria Branwell Haworth Parsonage Aunt Branwell (age 23) Cowan Bridge School Juvenilia Angria Stories Roe Head (drawing by Anne Bronte) Constantin Heger Title Page from Poems Volume Charlotte Bronte (Currer Bell) Emily Bronte (Ellis Bell) Anne Bronte (Acton Bell) Branwell Bronte Charlotte Bronte’s Novels
• The Professor (published posthumously) • Jane Eyre (1847) • Shirley( 1849) • Villette (1853 Arthur Bell Nicholls Reception
• Victorian Journalist Margaret Oliphant (1855): “Ten years ago we professed an orthodox system of novel-making. Our lovers were humble and devoted . . . When suddenly, without warning, Jane Eyre stole upon the scene, and the most alarming revolution of modern times has followed the invasion of Jane Eyre. Reception, cont.
Elizabeth Rigney (1848): “Jane Eyre is throughout the personification of an unregenerate and undisciplined spirit.”
Anne Mozley (1853): Recalled that the book seemed to many to have been written by “an alien . . . from society [who was] amenable to none of its laws.” Yet, Enduring Popularity 1934 Feature Film--Colin Clive/ Virginia Bruce 1944 Feature Film--Orson Welles/Joan Fontaine 1970 NBC Television Production--George C. Scott/ Susannah York 1973 TV Mini-Series--Sorcha Cusack/Michael Jayston 1983 BBC Production--Zelah Clarke/Timothy Dalton 1996 Feature Film Charlotte Gainsbourg/William Hurt 1997--A & E Samantha Morton/ Ciaran Hinds 2006 BBC Television Mini- Series Ruth Wilson/Toby Stephens 2011 Feature Film Mia Wasikowska/Michael Fassbender Other Film and TV Productions
• 1910 Silent Film, Dir. Theodore Marston • 1914 Silent Film, Dir. Frank Hall Crane • 1914 Silent Film, Dir. Martin Faust • 1915 Silent Film, Dir. Travers Vale • 1921 Silent Film, Dir. Hugo Ballin • 1955 Brazilian TV Series • 1956 British TV Series • 1958 TV Film, the Netherlands • 1961 TV Film, U.S. • 1963 TV Film, Britain • 1968 Film, Greece The Broadway Musical Jane Eyre Opera Soundtrack Comic Book Paper Dolls Jane Eyre Doll Advertising Slate’s Parody of Jane Eyre as Pulp Fiction