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A fictional memoir of a survivor in an often-cruel world, Jane Eyre follows the orphaned heroine from an abusive childhood to her teenage and young adult years as governess at Thornfield Hall.
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English actor Jamie Bell plays St. John Rivers, a minister whose family takes in Jane when circumstances force her to flee Thornfield Hall and disguise her identity.
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The film also has somber fun with Thornfield as a haunted house of alarming sounds and squeaking timbers.
See Jane Blossom: An Enthralling 'Eyre' Joe Morgenstern 2011
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The Wall Street Journal: The first scene you filmed was Jane fleeing Rochester's Thornfield estate, where you're stumbling and crying and soaking wet.
For Jane Eyre, the Kid Is All Right John Jurgensen 2011
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A fictional memoir of a survivor in an often-cruel world, Jane Eyre follows the orphaned heroine from an abusive childhood to her teenage and young adult years as governess at Thornfield Hall.
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They've rearranged the narrative by starting with Jane's heartsick flight from Thornfield Hall, by spending useful time on her usually scanted encounter with St. John Rivers Jamie Bell and his family, and by playing, as powerful flashbacks, her harsh childhood as an orphan as well as her time as a governess at Thornfield.
See Jane Blossom: An Enthralling 'Eyre' Joe Morgenstern 2011
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English actor Jamie Bell plays St. John Rivers, a minister whose family takes in Jane when circumstances force her to flee Thornfield Hall and disguise her identity.
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Everett Collection JANE EYRE She became a teacher at 16, and two years later went work as a governess at Thornfield.
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In the book food is mentioned quite often, from the dreadful meals at Lowood, the boarding school for orphaned girls that Jane attends — and survives — for eight years, to that offered to Jane after she leaves Thornfield and is rescued by the Rivers family.
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In the book food is mentioned quite often, from the dreadful meals at Lowood, the boarding school for orphaned girls that Jane attends — and survives — for eight years, to that offered to Jane after she leaves Thornfield and is rescued by the Rivers family.
Seed-Cake (Novel Food, Fall ‘08 edition) « Baking History 2008
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