This same book she later gave to the young Jane Eyre, who hides from the bully at Gateshead Hall behind the curtains of a window seat: 'With Bewick on my knee, I was then happy.' Today his appeal helps to sell jam, greetings cards, posters and books, wherever designers harness his small images to their purpose. But she examined the illustrations so minutely and at such length that others asked what she saw in them. Today we hear of a new biography on this famous engraver: Nature's Engraver: A Life of Thomas Bewick by Jenny Uglow.įrom The Guardian: Shown Bewick's Birds, the 12-year-old Charlotte Brontë held the book close to her face, partly because she was shortsighted. Just as mesmerised, in fact, as were the young Brontës, who copied profusely from the book. In the interview you can find some information about some of the changes introduced by Sandy Welch and about the performance of Pilot, it seems that he will not be nominated to the best canine performance of the year :(.Īlthough we hear it's not the one she reads in the new miniseries of Jane Eyre, in the novel, young Jane is mesmerised by the pictures of birds that appear on Thomas Bewick's History of British Birds. Toby was determined to get away with the pantomime image of Rochester as a figure who either broods or strides around bellowing, to find the humanity in him. Jane doesn't say much to Rochester in their scenes together, but Ruth says it with great clarity and emotional intensity. Hearing an actor say the lines in the way that you imagined is the biggest high for me as a dramatist, and the way that Toby Stephens and Ruth Wilson were able to find the complexity in some of their long scenes was amazing. I worked quite quickly and by the end of the summer the scripts for all four episodes were in. The passionate nature of her relationship with Rochester, coupled with the equallity of intellect that they both crave, remains the romantic ideal of many a 21-st century woman. It's an astonishingly heady rush and Jane's every thought mark her out as a very modern heroine.

Jane Eyre is a book that has compelled me since I was a teenager. It's quite different from the online clip available from the official website so we recommend you watch it carefully :)Īlso you can find this interesting (scanned) interview with writer Sandy Welch, The BBC trail for the second episode (or directly on youtube). A visit to her blog shows two interesting novelties: Pennyforyourdreams is a constant source of information on the new on going BBC Jane Eyre adaptation.

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