In Search of Romance? Try Books Like Jane Eyre

Karen B kish
12 min readOct 29, 2023

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What are some classic romance books like Jane Eyre? If You Like Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë, Read These Books.

As women, we should read books, because books will tell us how to be an attractive woman.

The so-called charm is not just about appearance, but more about inner quality.

Forgiving women make people feel warm, humorous women make people feel happy, confident women make people feel strong, elegant women make people feel comfortable, and temperamental women make people feel generous.

This is the difference between ordinary books and good books. The former is optional, while the latter is highly sought after, enduring, and often new.

“Jane Eyre” is also included in the textbook, bringing inspiration to every child’s childhood, such recognition is enough to explain everything.

If you don’t know what to read, you can’t go wrong with Jane Eyre first.

I recommend the following 15 books similar to Jane Eyre that are most suitable for women to read. After reading them, I believe you can also become an attractive woman.

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Rebecca

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Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier

Without further ado, let’s talk about Rebecca. In this novel, she has never appeared, but she has always existed in everyone’s heart. Outsiders thought this stunner was impeccable: beautiful, noble, intelligent, capable, daring, and powerful;

but in her husband Derwent’s eyes a complete devil, bitch! She can pretend that everyone can’t see her heart, can’t see her wildness, and can mix with anyone and confuse all beings. She would do unethical things, and she’s in the process of cleaning up.

This woman is too independent, too bold, she can ride a horse better than a man, and naturally, she can go out to sea alone. She loves no one, she only loves herself. She didn’t want to be someone’s accessory, and she didn’t want to have a man’s surname after her name.

How scary to think, why ask your opinion on what to wear? Why do you talk about your color? Why do you have to invite guests and friends to hold a party as you wish? Just because of your surname!

I think this is a women’s liberation novel and the two heroines in the book are from two eras. Rebecca, seems to be a feminist, she pursues her own freedom, enjoys all kinds of men, and enjoys pleasure, maybe she is called a bitch, so what? She has a hut of her own. Anyone can spend the night here without being granted residency. As soon as the sun rises, people will leave.

I think Rebecca may not bring too many people of the opposite sex here. Anyone who is willing to go to sea has a heart that cannot be tied. She may just hope that she can continue like this, reading a book, being in a daze, and sleeping. Yes, only where will she feel that she is the master, she is Rebecca, not the mistress of Mandali, not Mrs. Derwent.

And the poor other Mrs. Derwent, Mrs. Continued Strings, was so well-behaved. It is no wonder that he is loved by the male protagonist. Men all want to have a wife like Rebecca, and at the same time are afraid of having it. Just because it’s hard to tame? No, it is not.

They are afraid that women get more respect and praise than them, and they are timid that their own light will be covered up by her. Let the man, the great sun, hide under the moon’s brilliance. They can’t stand the trick of controlling women being used on themselves.

From beginning to end, the male protagonist never loved Rebecca but was satisfied with the emotion that Rebecca brought prosperity to the manor and brought honor. Men are only afraid of the face. And this Lady Continued String is far less beautiful than Rebecca, and she is dull, but what men see in her is her innocence and her duty of being at the mercy of others.

Mandoli’s masquerade was not because Mrs. Sequel dressed up as Rebecca in the past to make him angry, but she went against his will for the first time after marriage — not dressed as, Alice, that innocent child.

A man is naive. He wants to marry a wife and hopes that she will always keep the feeling she had when she knew her. Little do they know that a woman can become more perfect herself. This may also be a form of control and escape.

“Your funny and confused expression like a little girl, the expression I like, has disappeared without a trace. Never again…you’ve become mature and prudent all of a sudden…”

How could Derwent know how many times this little girl was sad because she couldn’t hold herself back because of her immaturity, and was afraid that she would not be able to do Mrs. Derwent? In reality, how many men leave because women have been naive and unable to mature?

Men want women like this, women like that, man, what do you want?

Although Rebecca ended tragically, she truly lived out herself.

Woolf once wrote a book called A Room of One’s Own, which encouraged women to be independent and have opinions about their own cabins. I think the best quote from the book here is “A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.”

Mrs. Dalloway

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Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

Woolf’s characters have a wonderful simplicity, but you don’t fully understand him, and even if you’ve followed his inner monologue or personal perspective a long way, you’re still not sure what you know is his. all. There is something hidden, you feel that he is alive, but hides something.

Mrs. Dalloway is a lovely book, and in fact, every one of Woolf’s books is lovely — and certainly decent. Someone asked me in what sense I used the word decency, I think it represents a sincere nobility with purity in which cleanliness and intelligence work.

I think the Woolf at the back of the book is a witty woman with a good sense of humor, she’s not pretentious at all, and her nihilism is endearing, but that cuteness doesn’t diminish its desperation. After reading Mrs. Dalloway, the word came to my mind again: “integration”. Our Mrs. Dalloway is a woman who perfectly integrates her divisions.

She knew how to live well in this world, and she chose Richard over Peter. Peter is not someone who can integrate himself, he is “clumsy” to the world and will always be. And how Richard fits into the world, a one-way guy, but he has that tinge of introspective intelligence (if he didn’t have even that, Dalloway wouldn’t have tolerated marrying him).

He has the advantage that he won’t ask about the other side of Dalloway, he just dumps himself completely on her, and she accepts it with ease, she uses everything he has to achieve her own good life This side of her, but she also left her own space intact, which she knew Richard wouldn’t notice.

This hidden precious space is open to only two people: Peter and Sally. Everything went so well, friends, status, money. The banquet also started smoothly. Until Septimus, the news of the strange young man’s suicide came. Mrs. Dalloway’s perfect inner world cracked at that moment. No, the crack has always existed, it’s just that she usually either looks at this side of the crack or the other side, and she jumps around freely, subtly avoiding facing the crack itself.

And at that moment she had to look at the deep crack and stare at it, with no choice. More than once in the book, there is a mention of the waves, the choppy, repetitive motion. It seems that the book “The Waves” has long been in Woolf’s mind.

In fact, before reading Mrs. Dalloway I had the false impression that it was about a story that happened on a boat when it actually happened in her other book, The Voyage, but At the time, I did not know the existence of the book “Voyage”.

The waves have always been the image of her subject. “Voyage,” “Jacob’s Room,” “Mrs. Dalloway,” “To the Lighthouse,” up to “The Wave,” which directly imitates the movement of waves. This changing and repeating everything, surging, whistling, washing ashore, shattering, and disappearing, is an irresistible life.

A Little Princess

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A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett

After watching A Little Princess “Little Princess”, I began to know the story when I was very young and watching the TV show “A Little Princess” played by Lan Dengbo.

The second time I saw this story was when another young actor played the role on TV. Yes, I was moved twice after reading it, and now I have found the book to read, and I am also secretly reading it during work hours!

There are differences between the movie and the book. In the movie, the little princess’s father is not dead, but in the book, the little princess’s father is dead! But the storytelling of the little princess and the fairytale-like turning into reality all make me feel very beautiful, very happy, and very excited.

When I saw the little princess starving, I felt very sad. How could a child like that endure so much suffering! Her little heart is so kind that she thinks the world is so dirty; she sees through everything in the world, her strong performance and the hypothetical fairy tale make me feel that everything is still so beautiful!

I also like the portrayal of the little characters in it, I like Lottie the crying child, I like the poor Becky, I like the bakery owner who changed because of Sarah, I like the Indian servant and the little monkey.

Everyone no matter where they are Don’t give up your “assumptions” in such a situation, and maintain a princess attitude and politeness no matter what the environment is! Every fairy tale must believe that it is true!

Little Women

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Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

In 2018, Little Women has been published for 150 years; in 2019, my three-year struggle to read it is finally over… The characterization in this book is undoubtedly a success.

This is because the author spends a lot of space creating them, and that space is of no use other than characterizing them. This kind of emphasis on writing makes the background of the era in which the story takes place is very vague, and therefore the pattern is not high.

The whole story is very simple, it takes nearly 800 pages to tell the story of four sisters in an ordinary family. In other words, very boring. It was only in the last 200 pages that the plot got a few ups and downs and I didn’t have to sigh “so boring” every half a page.

This book also confirms once again that I really don’t like the way traditional novels are written — too little white space and too much concluding description, too much didactic to leave any room for contemplation.

All in all, it’s too sweet and tender and too serious and simple.

Anne of Green Gables

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Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery

This is a very beautiful children’s literature about youth growth. After reading this book, I really wanted to become a girl like Annie. I did it for a long time, but my nature was hard to change, so I had to finish this book.

There are four books, including “Anne of Green Gables”, “The Girl Anne”, “Anne of the College Girl”, and “Anne of the Poplar in the Wind”, all of which are very good-looking. I heard that the author wrote about Annie’s whole life. It’s so beautiful.

Recommended reason: This book is really strong, it actually created a world tourist attraction! In Asia, it is said that Japanese people like Annie the most.

Many young Japanese couples choose to go to Cavendish for their honeymoon, and some people The wedding was deliberately held in front of the fireplace in the Green Gables farmhouse, and even more so, the day in the book Anne’s wedding had to be chosen.

Anne lost her parents in childhood and was adopted at the age of eleven. The little orphan girl has a distinct personality and is full of fantasy. With her self-esteem and self-improvement, with her hard work and diligence, she has not only been liked by her adopters but also won the respect and friendship of her teachers and classmates. This masterpiece of Canadian children’s literature has been translated into dozens of languages since its publication.

Wide Sargasso Sea

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Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys

I love this post-colonial novel, and I love it much more than Jane Eyre. The author Rhys is a white Creole who grew up in the British colonies. It is said that when he was a teenager, he was very surprised when he first read about the crazy Creole woman in Jane Eyre and wanted to restore this crazy woman one day.

What Reese wants to express is complex, but the fusion is cleverly interspersed, and the special awkward position of Creoles between people of color and British whites, the racial conflict on the island, the injustice of women in the combination of law and marriage, And the struggles of a Clio woman’s life are revealed in just one short novel.

Although Jane Eyre was an independent woman who broke through the traditions of the Victorian period, Charlotte could not escape the superiority of white women as a model of elegance and holiness and constructed a Clio crazy woman from the colony such as Rochester’s original match to make a comparison.

Boundless Bathing Sea completely shatters this polarized contrast, and while providing a reasonable explanation for her madness, exposes the psychological scars of the people of color in the colony.

The Turn of the Screw

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The Turn of the Screw by Henry James

Henry James (1843–1916), a famous novelist, literary critic, and playwright, was born into a wealthy family in New York. He chose to travel and study all over Europe when he was young. The long history and profound cultural heritage of the European continent gave him a stronger sense of belonging.

This famous artist who influenced modern literature finally became a British citizen a year before his death, and then died in London, leaving his soul forever. In this heart-wrenching land.

“The Turn of the Screw” is the pioneering work of a famous psychoanalytic novel in the 20th century. It was written in 1898. After more than 100 years of circulation, it is still widely praised.

In terms of choreography and narrative skills, the suspenseful and terrifying atmosphere of the whole story is well rendered: a group of people started a night talking around the fireplace, which has a sense of sight of Japanese horror legends, and this group people listened to the original story in a dark night.

There are some weird stories that push this creepy feeling to the extreme. In a situation similar to a picture-in-picture, even readers outside the book are not substituted into their own imaginations: the weirdness in the story It won’t happen around me, is the reality I’m in the real reality, and whether there are other audiences watching me outside the environment I’m in, admiring the “Truman World” I staged? “?

Another aspect of the success of the work lies in the existence of two different interpretations of the governess’s self-reported experiences: one is that what the female teacher said was true, and the two orphans she cared for had far more mature and even more mature children than children of the same age.

Slightly evil thoughts and this mansion is also shrouded in the shadow of the ghosts of dead servants, the most terrifying thing is that in such an environment, only the female teacher can see the “truth” behind it, and others may not see or For some reason he was silent.

This state of “sober alone” makes the client face the most terrifying situation, no one understands her, and no one saves her. Many successful horror movies have borrowed this similar setting, such as “The Orphan’s Resentment”, “Omnipotent” The Keys” and so on,

the stories mixed with the existence of supernatural phenomena have a surreal feeling in themselves, and the huge conflict between the incredibly realistic existence and people’s common sense cognition aggravates the unique shocking perception.

The other is a psychological interpretation that is very similar to Freud’s theory, that is, all the self-reports of the female governess are her subjective imaginations and the projections of her psychological desires in reality.

German theories are similar rather than directly identified as being equal because the book “The Turn of the Screw” was written earlier than Freud’s theory, but Henry James, who also studied philosophy and psychology, should also The theory proposed by Lloyd later is quite agreeable.

This may also be a coincidence that under the historical conditions of the same period, the heroes of the great people see the same thing.

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Karen B kish
Karen B kish

Written by Karen B kish

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