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Bidisha recalls her teenage enthusiasm for Jane Eyre

As an adult reader, Bidisha now finds Charlotte Bront毛鈥檚 novel darker and more worrying than she remembered it.

10 September 2014

2 minutes

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The Secret Life of Books—Series 1, Jane Eyre

Bidisha visits the Bront毛 family home at Haworth

Duration: 02:57
Bidisha and Ann Dinsdale examine Bront毛鈥檚鈥榝air copy鈥� of Jane Eyre at the British Library

Duration: 03:52

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