The Many Faces of Jane Eyre: Film, Stage and TV Adaptations

combine the ‘Encounters’ of Holland and the visitor accounts of Lemon in a separate publication. A listing of these encounters was needed here. Holland writes well, and while he covers familiar ground, his research is up to date and insightful. We get a pleasing picture of an intelligent and knowledgeable Anne Bront€e. Written for a popular market, the Notes on sources, and a Selected Bibliography will meet with approval from scholars and critics, though not, perhaps, the lack of meaningful chapter headings and the absence of an index. But in the words of critic Peter Cook, the author is ‘an enthusiast of the best sort, seeking to share his lifelong love and considerable knowledge of the Bront€es and their work with as wide an audience as possible’ (BS 44(30), p. 326). And ‘[... ] finally, thank you Anne Bront€e—happy 200th birthday’ (p. 10).