I’ve just finished the first ‘volume’ of Jane Eyre, meaning I’m about half-way through. I’m also watching the 2007 TV version in four episodes with

I’m reading essentially 33 pages every day, enough to get me through in 12 days. This is relatively slow for me, but I’m taking the

Chapter 9: while Helen is laid up sick, Jane makes friends with “one Mary Ann Wilson; a shrewd, observant personage, whose society I took pleasure

I should add here that I think Jane is actually right in her assessment, which might sound like I disagree with Helen, and by extension

In Chapter 6 of Jane Eyre, Jane has an exchange with Helen Burns. After seeing Helen cruelly chastised for minor issues, Jane speaks with her:  “You