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The Secret Staircase in Jane Eyre

Via Mirabilis, we find this BBC article about the secret staircase that Charlotte Bronte refers to in Jane Eyre:

In Jane Eyre, the hero Mr Rochester keeps his mad first wife in a hidden attic up a secret stairway. The owners of Norton Conyers in North Yorkshire always believed their house near Ripon may have inspired the writer. But the staircase had been hidden since the 1880s and its current residents only found it after clearing the attic.

Ah, for the nineteenth century, when no one gave a second thought to keeping your crazy wife in the attic.

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One Response to “The Secret Staircase in Jane Eyre”

  1. Jeff Says:
    December 7th, 2004 at 12:27 pm

    I read that book earlier this year.

    I tried to enjoy it, but found myself unable to tolerate Bronte’s writing style.

    Parts of it were okay, but after the halfway point, I lost interest altogether.
    (still got 90% on a related Jane Eyre essay though!)

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