This week I finished reading
The Manor House Governess by C.A. Castle. It was terrific to stumble upon this after just having finished reading
The Jane Austen Society, because while
The Jane Austen Society was about people obsessed with Jane Austen,
The Manor House Governess is about a character obsessed with
Jane Eyre. In addition, Bron, the main character, is living a twenty-first century, gender-fluid
Jane Eyre life. I enjoy reading "versions" of
Jane Eyre, and this one is well worth the read for people like me. Though I couldn't connect all the characters and situations in
Manor House to characters and situations to
Jane Eyre. Which means either that I wasn't being just to
Manor House and reading it for itself or I need to read
Jane Eyre again. I've only read it twice, and it's been a while. Both
The Jane Austen Society and
The Manor House Governess made me feel I should be reading the related classics over and over again the way the characters in these books do. But how when there are so many Austen- and Eyre-related work to read?
Remember The Madwoman in the Attic Answers Letters Pleading for Her Advice that I read this week? That's what I mean by needing time for Jane Eyre-related work.
Jon Stewart Knows "The Daily Show" Won't Save Democracy by Inkoo Kang in The New Yorker includes something interesting I'd never heard of before--claptor comedy. It's comedy that isn't used to make people laugh but to make them applaud, because you've appealed to their beliefs. So now I know that.
A humor piece for you: Ways I Imagined I Might Die When I Was A Kid by Anthony DeThomas in Points in Case.
3 comments:
When I was in 5th grade (1972-3), they showed us a TV adaptation of 'Jane Eyre' with George C. Scott, Susannah York et al. We read portions of the novel too beforehand. HAH! Yeah, right! No, they just showed us the TV movie raw, which came off as a horror film b/c of Mrs. Rochester in the attic. (I just found out that Mrs. Rochester was played by Jean Marsh, of 'Upstairs, Downstairs' fame.) And I just found out that my lo-cal library system has several DVD copies of the TV movie, so maybe I can induce some flashbacks. Here's the movie's listing at imdb.com:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065911/?ref_=ttls_li_tt
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