![]() ![]() Yet despite its mesmerising staying power, posterity has not quite known what to do with Jane Eyre. High points in the novel's rich afterlife include the 1943 Hollywood version with Joan Fontaine and Orson Welles, and, in more recent times, Michael Berkeley's opera, Fanny Britt's graphic novel Jane, the Fox and Me and the artist Paula Rego's haunting images. ![]() ![]() Her best known work, Jane Eyre, has the capacity of a fairytale to transcend time, with its Cinderella story of an unwanted child who becomes a poor, plain governess but ends up beating the odds by snaring the Byronic hero Mr Rochester. She died in March 1855, at the age of nearly 39, which makes this month something of an anniversary too. This year is the bicentennial of Charlotte Brontë's birth. ![]()
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