Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre is viewed by some as a feminist work, but the heroine in Cary Fukunaga's film adaptation stays true to the book by refusing to be a feminist role modelWomen have been fascinated by Jane Eyre since the book was published in 1847, but it's only in our own era that it's come to be viewed as "a feminist tract" or even "the first major feminist novel". Charlotte Brontë is considered as "…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:40AM on September 12, 2011