If Only Jane Eyre Would Come to Life

If you could bring one fictional character to life for a day, who would you choose?

Jane Eyre was the first person that occurred to me. I want to meet that woman. I want to say hello and shake hands and thank her for the hours of pleasure, joy and rapture that her character brought me to every time I have read that book.

As some women find her insipid and him rather incorrigible and sexist in the worst way we could imagine, that book has endured years and years of young girls reading it and...