Charlotte: Bronte Revelations - The Final Journey of Jane Eyre

Charlotte: Bronte Revelations - The Final Journey of Jane Eyre

by D. M. Thomas (Author)

Synopsis

A manuscript is discovered which appears to be the conclusion of Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre . The unearthed chapters describe a barren marriage, financial ruin, and ultimately, the death of Lord Rochester. Grace Poole, a survivor of the fire at Thornfield Hall, reveals to Jane the final Rochester secret: that a boy was born to the first Mrs Rochester in Martinique. The child was black and subsequently abandoned. As Jane Eyre and Grace Poole board a packet-boat for the Caribbean in search of Rochester's only male heir, and financial future, this novel gives an insight into the hidden eroticism of Bronte's work and deconstructs the Victorian novel. The scene abruptly changes to modern times, when a woman books into a Martinique hotel under the name Charlotte Bronte...

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 160
Edition: New
Publisher: Duck Editions
Published: 17 May 2001

ISBN 10: 0715630946
ISBN 13: 9780715630945

Media Reviews
'The irresistibly melodramatic main plot of D. M. Thomas' novel had me completely bewitched...hours of brilliantly imaginative escape' - Val Hennessy, Daily Mail; 'A wickedly irreverent antidote to earnest study' - Charlotte Cory, The Independent
Author Bio
D.M. Thomas was born in Cornwall in 1935. He is a poet and the author of several novels, including The White Hotel (1981), which won international acclaim and was awarded the P.E.N. Prize, Cheltenham Prize and L.A. Times Fiction Prize. D.M. Thomas still lives in Cornwall, and recently received much praise for his biography, Alexander Solzhenitsyn: A Century in his Life.