Jane Eyre Critics: female friendship

2006 TV (Susanna White director)

doesn’t include Miss Temple, so Jane tells Rochester she hasn’t has a friend since Helen died

Terry Eagleton (1975)

Jane “a watchful, alien presence on the periphery of others’ lives”

John Kucich (1987)

“Jane repeatedly condemns the tranquility of her life, and longs for change”

Sally Shuttleworth (1996)

“competitive, individualist principles underpinned Victorian social and economic theory”

Doreen Roberts (1980)

Jane’s “lack of casual aquaintanceships increases the reader’s sense of the heroine’s psychic isolation”

Penny Boumelha (1990)

“most of the characters are projections or fragments of Jane”