Posts Tagged ‘Sheila Kohler’
As an audience, it seems we cannot get enough of Jane Eyre or the author, Charlotte Bronte. In this beautifully imagined tale of the Bronte sisters and the writing of Jane Eyre, author Sheila Kohler takes us to the gloomy Yorkshire moors of northern England. The family seems cursed: the mother and two of the children are dead; the father is sick; another son destroyed by alcohol and opiates. Is life imitating art or art imitating life?
In Becoming Jane Eyre, the story centers around Charlotte and the overlapping narratives of author and heroine. Both women, real and imagined, are angry at their circumstances and indignant at the injustices they suffer. Kohler ably portrays Charlotte’s unrequited love for a married man and the agony she undergoes because of it. The language of the book is the same as that in the time of Jane Eyre.
Kohler’s novel Cracks has been made into a movie directed by Jordan Scott (Ridley’s daughter).
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