Passionate Impressions
This handsome edition in the Senate House Library is firmly marked ‘Ref. Only’. The font and print are clear and well spaced, especially helpful to the myopic literature student suffering from eye...
View ArticleThe Autobiographical Element of Jane Eyre
A 1996 edition of Jane Eyre edited by Beth Newman and published by Bedford Books of St Martin’s Press (Boston, New York) was found on the shelves of Senate House Library in London. The brown cover,...
View ArticleThe Personalised Wedding Present: A WWII Mystery
Open this small, exquisite, leather bound volume with its marbled cover and gold, flower embossed design on the spine, and you will find a hand-written inscription written in 1945. Penned from one fond...
View ArticleIllustrating impressions
The illustrations in the Facsimile edition are very different to any others I have seen before. These were carried out by Edmund H. Garrett and I looked at a few of them in detail. Garrett produced...
View ArticleEngagement with My Jane Eyre on Twitter
This project has encompassed not just the blog but also a presence on Twitter @eyre_my. It has been really great to engage with readers and get some feedback. We have had some really wonderful support,...
View ArticleAn Inscription by Patrick Bronte
There are a number of 1850 fourth editions of Jane Eyre in the Haworth archive, published in 1850, this one has a frisson of familial proximity in its precious inscription. According to the inscription...
View Article‘Shakespeare Head’ illustrations
Two of three possible volumes were high up on a shelf at Senate House Library —what has happened to Vol.III is anybody’s guess—maybe it had wandered off into the moorlands of Senate House. The...
View ArticleReading Pleasures
Surrounded by the heady delights of the Brontë Parsonage Museum library archive, I opened this substantial 1896 Bliss Sands & Co volume with its red cover and thick paper and was immediately drawn...
View ArticleHandwriting envy
The opening facsimile of Charlotte Brontë’s hand for the opening of the novel is quite arresting. A double underlining emphasises with perfect clarity that adverb of place. The date March 16th...
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