y separately published work icon Jane Eyre (International) assertion single work   novel  
Note: Jane Eyre is included in AustLit because of Australian-written adaptations.
Issue Details: First known date: 1847... 1847 Jane Eyre
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Adaptations

y separately published work icon Jane Eyre : A Drama of Passion in Three Acts Jane Eyre : A Play in Three Acts, Dramatised From Charlotte Bronte's Novel Helen Jerome , New York (City) : Doubleday, Doran , 1937 Z860113 1937 single work drama
form y separately published work icon Jane Eyre Sumner Locke Elliott , ( dir. Franklin J. Schaffner ) New York (City) : CBS , 1949 6584289 1949 single work film/TV
y separately published work icon Jane Eyre David Malouf , Michael Berkeley (composer), London : Vintage UK , 2000 Z941631 2000 single work musical theatre opera

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Works about this Work

Bronte Badland: Jane Eyre Reconfigured as Colonial Gothic in Mardi McConnochie's Coldwater Maggie Tonkin , 2007 single work criticism
— Appears in: A Breath of Fresh Eyre: Intertextual and Intermedial Reworkings of Jane Eyre 2007; (p. 115-127)
From The Varens Obsession (from The Golden Courtesan, a work-in-progress) Shady Cosgrove , 2004 extract novel
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 64 no. 3 2004; (p. 10-14)
y separately published work icon Regarding Jane Eyre Susan Geason (editor), Milsons Point : Random House , 1997 Z31059 1997 anthology short story prose biography
The Ghost of Mrs Rochester Lucy Sussex , 1996 single work short story science fiction
— Appears in: Eidolon : The Journal of Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy , Autumn no. 21 1996; (p. 6-19)

— Appears in: The Year's Best Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy : Volume 1 1997; (p. 81-100) A Tour Guide in Utopia 2005; (p. 149-168)
In 'The Ghost of Mrs Rochester,' Sussex 'links past and present, in this case an illustration of Mrs Rochester in an edition of Jane Eyre, to provide a most effective ghost story' (Colin Steele, SF Commentary No 77, p.54).

Jane Eyre Amanda Lohrey , 1995 single work short story humour
— Appears in: Republica , no. 2 1995; (p. 75-79)
y separately published work icon Regarding Jane Eyre Susan Geason (editor), Milsons Point : Random House , 1997 Z31059 1997 anthology short story prose biography
Jane Eyre Amanda Lohrey , 1995 single work short story humour
— Appears in: Republica , no. 2 1995; (p. 75-79)
Bronte Badland: Jane Eyre Reconfigured as Colonial Gothic in Mardi McConnochie's Coldwater Maggie Tonkin , 2007 single work criticism
— Appears in: A Breath of Fresh Eyre: Intertextual and Intermedial Reworkings of Jane Eyre 2007; (p. 115-127)
form y separately published work icon Wide Sargasso Sea Jan Sharp , Carole Angier , John Duigan , ( dir. John Duigan ) 1993 Australia : Laughing Kookaburra Productions , 1993 Z189846 1993 single work film/TV

Wide Sargasso Sea is based on the 1966 postcolonial novel of the same name by Dominican-born author Jean Rhys. As with many postcolonial works, it deals with the themes of racial inequality and the harshness of displacement and assimilation.

The novel is essentially a prequel to Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre (1847), telling the story of the first Mrs Rochester, a white Creole heiress caught in an oppressive patriarchal society in which she belongs neither to the white Europeans nor the black Jamaicans. Antoinette is a young female landowner who marries an Englishman (newly arrived in Jamaica) to avoid losing her property. All seems perfect, love arises, and happiness is on the way, but she is hiding an old secret regarding her childhood and her mother. The secret slowly begins to erode this perfect relationship and the young lovers are swept into a menage of black magic and erotic obsession that spirals into a climax of seduction, betrayal, and ultimately revenge.

From The Varens Obsession (from The Golden Courtesan, a work-in-progress) Shady Cosgrove , 2004 extract novel
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 64 no. 3 2004; (p. 10-14)
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