![]() ![]() One set of lithographs, produced in 2002 and published in book form in 2004, gives us Jane Eyre from Paula's perspective. ![]() A relative who hates her exerts influence over the administration, prompting Eyre’s mistreatment. ![]() Paula Rego was a Portuguese-British artist who produced artworks inspired by fairytale, storybooks and literature, often reflecting girlhood and feminism and her Portuguese heritage. While her first novel, The Professor, was rejected by publishers, her second novel, Jane Eyre, was published in 1847. The watershed moment in Charlotte Bronte’s debut novel, Jane Eyre, is when protagonist Eyre starts schooling. So it's fascinating when we get a glimpse into someone else's imaginary world and can look at how their interpretation is different to our own. This landscape infuses Charlotte Brontë's work and as a reader, we build a whole world of sights, sounds and smells, from her words. You can experience both the openness and opportunity and the confinement and bleakness that made their way into Charlotte's works and those of her sisters, Emily and Anne. Abandoned as a baby, Edward Sydney finds a 'protector in Mr. You can visit the family home at the Brontë Parsonage Museum - 'a historic, intimate space' - and then walk up onto the moor and smell the heather and watch the weather move in. Written when she was 17, The Foundling is a classic fairy tale set in the imagined kingdom of Verdopolis which will delight fans of Charlotte Bront’s later work. With its steep cobbled and narrow streets neighbouring vast moorland spaces, Brontë’s setting is at the same time claustrophobic and confining yet overwhelmingly open. ![]()
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