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From: The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)
Date: 20070119
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Byline: Jim Heinrich Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
One of the most popular novels ever written, Charlotte Bronte's "Jane Eyre," published in 1847, still mesmerizes readers primarily because of its central relationship: the love affair between the plain but guileless governess Jane Eyre and her employer, the wealthy, tempestuous Edward Rochester.
More than a dozen Jane Eyres and Edward Rochesters have inhabited movie or TV screens over the years, including Joan Fontaine and Orson Welles (1944), Susannah York and George C. Scott (1970), Zelah Clarke and Timothy Dalton (1983), and ...
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