On Eyre: An Introduction
Hot and Bothered
Not Sorry Productions
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🗓️ 2 July 2021
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
If you know anything about Vanessa Zoltan, you know that Jane Eyre is her favorite book. In fact, she just wrote her own book about it: Praying with Jane Eyre. But after spending so much time lovingly pouring over this text, it's time to take a step back.
Each week of On Eyre, Vanessa and Lauren Sandler will take a critical look at the text and ask themselves ‘does this old book still have something to say in our world?’
But before we jump into the first chapter, a few questions need to be answered. Questions like: Who is Charlotte Bronte, and why should anyone (who isn't Vanessa) care about this book?
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| 0:00.0 | You have an idea of what kind of person likes Jane Eyre. |
| 0:05.0 | It's a woman. |
| 0:07.0 | It's a white woman. |
| 0:09.0 | It's a Tweet white woman. |
| 0:12.0 | She likes T. |
| 0:14.0 | Dried roses. |
| 0:16.0 | She blushes easily. |
| 0:18.0 | She dreams of his and hers embroidered bath towels. |
| 0:23.0 | If she drinks coffee, it's spiced with pumpkins. |
| 0:27.0 | I'm obviously here to tell you that you're wrong. |
| 0:30.0 | I love Jane Eyre and I don't even like T. |
| 0:33.0 | Also, I think it's important to point out |
| 0:36.0 | that there doesn't seem to be a stereotype |
| 0:38.0 | of a kind of person who loves Dickens. |
| 0:41.0 | And I know that you know this, but it has to be said for the record. |
| 0:45.0 | Women who like popery and whose embarrassment |
| 0:48.0 | pinks up their faces are wonderful brilliant women. |
| 0:52.0 | It's just that it's not just popery ladies who love Jane Eyre. |
| 0:56.0 | It isn't one kind of person who loves Jane Eyre. |
| 1:00.0 | Maya Angelou loves Jane Eyre and would reread it frequently. |
| 1:04.0 | Zadie Smith loves Jane Eyre and she doesn't love weathering heights by the way. |
| 1:09.0 | Stacey Abrams, Amanda Gorman, Jacqueline Wilson, Hillary Mantell, |
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