arbieroo 's review for:

Manga Classics: Jane Eyre by Crystal S. Chan, Charlotte Brontë

3.0

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Austen and the Bronte sisters have long been closely associated in my mind, solely on the dubious grounds that they were the Big Names of 19th Century female novel writing. However I hadn't actually read them. I was under the impression that they were all obsessed with marriage (understandably) and in my youth that didn't strike me as a thrilling topic, so I ignored them. This made no sense at all given that at the same time I was devouring Thomas Hardy who was obsessed with - marriage. Or at least, divorce. And the whole importance of marriage theme in that century's literature was merely a reflection of the state of society and that was interesting. The lack of social mobility and how that (combining with other factors) meant women of any given class were worse off than men of equivalent standing was interesting. What has changed and what hasn't between then and now was interesting.

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