Cornelia W’s Reviews > Jane Eyre > Status Update

The wisdom of Jane is amazing to behold. Though she had to wealth, status, or protection, she chose to honor herself and her heart. I admire her deeply.

"What love have I for Miss Ingram? None: and that you know. What love has she for me? None: as I have taken pains to prove: I caused a rumour to reach her that my fortune was not a third of what was supposed, and after that I presented myself to see the result; it was coldness both from her and her mother."

Very clever scheme

Eliza and Georgiana

Those two have got to be the most selfish and unloving siblings I've ever read about. My goodness. Their relationship is appalling.

😵‍💫😵🥴 ummmmm...what did I just read!?!
A knife wound and gorging teeth marks. I am horrified and intrigued as to what is going on with the mad woman. Poor Mason got more then he bargained for!

I am positively horrified by Mr. Brocklehurst. He is a.w.e.f.u.l.!!!!!!

When he had little Julia Severns hair cut off because it was curly?? He needs a good taser in the buttocks.

Ha! I loved how Jane gave Mrs. Reed (awful, awful woman) a ear full! Well done, Jane!

"Children can feel, but they cannot analyse their feelings; analysis is partially effected in thought, they know not how to express the result of the process in words. Fearful, however, of losing this first and only opportunity of relieving my grief by imparting it, I, after a disturbed pause, contrived to frame a meagre, though, as far as it went, true response."

"No severe or prolonged bodily illness followed this incident of the red-room; it only gave my nerves a shock of which I feel the reverberation to this day. Yes, Mrs. Reed, to you I owe some fearful pangs of mental suffering, but I ought to forgive you, for you knew not what you did: while rending my heartstrings, you thought you were only uprooting my bad propensities."

Excuse me??!? What just happened!??