The Boston Globe, January 8th, 2006
"IS THIS MY pale little elf? Is this my mustard-seed? This little sunny-faced girl with the dimpled cheek and rosy lips; the satin- smooth hazel hair and the radiant hazel eyes?" So marvels Mr. Rochester the morning after having proposed marriage to the title character of Charlotte Bronte's 1847 novel "Jane Eyre." Though described by herself and other characters as "plain" and "Quakerish," Rochester insists that Jane is "a beauty just after the desire of my heart-delicate and aerial." Who's right? And are Jane's eyes hazel-or, as she insists, green? "One of the reasons 'Jane Eyre' has been so ...
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