Jane Eyre: An Autobiography

Jane Eyre: An Autobiography

Event Date: 
11/10/2013 - 7:30pm to 12/10/2013 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
Barnfield Theatre, Exeter

“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.”

From a miserable childhood controlled by uncaring adults, Jane Eyre learns to rely on her own resources and determination to make her way in the world. She longs to learn. She dares to hope for better.

Employed as a governess, she travels across the bleak Yorkshire moors to the Gothic isolation of Thornfield Hall – a house of locked doors with a dark and dangerous secret.

There she meets the mysterious but fascinating Mr Rochester. Can the narrow constraints of Victorian...