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World Book Club: Charlotte Brontë - Jane Eyre

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Charlotte Brontë - Jane Eyre

07/05/2016 GMT

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Writers Claire Harman and Tracy Chevalier discuss Charlotte Bronte's classic Jane Eyre.

Writers Claire Harman and Tracy Chevalier discuss Charlotte Bronte's classic novel Jane Eyre.

To celebrate the bicentenary of Charlotte Brontë’s birth, World Book Club travels back to Victorian England to discuss her captivating and enduring tale, Jane Eyre with writer Tracy Chevalier and biographer Claire Harman in a packed BBC Radio Theatre. 

The novel traces the fortunes of a young orphaned girl searching for a sense of belonging and identity in a hostile world, plagued by both gender and social inequality.

Weaving together the sweeping romance between Jane and Mr Rochester, a social commentary on nineteenth century England and set against the eerie Gothic backdrop of imposing mansions and wild moorland, Brontë has produced one of the world’s most loved and timeless tales.

(Photo: Charlotte Bronte. Credit: Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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