In Charlotte Brontë’s 1847 novel Jane Eyre, Mr. Rochester has “broad and jetty eyebrows” and a “grim mouth, chin, and jaw—yes, all three were very grim, and make no mistake.” He’s “broad chested and ...

Enough with the empire waistlines, the sparkly dialogue, the pride, the prejudice, the Colin Firth trudging out of the lake again and again on the late-night minithons on A&E. Enough with all that.

In the past century, according to the New York Times, there have been 18 film adaptations of Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre, which, though one of the great English-language novels of all time, perhaps ...