This week I have re-read Jane Eyre. It is quite prodigiously better than the other Bronte books.... Part of the interest lies in seeing in the most (apparently) preposterous male characters how quite ordinary people look through the eyes of a shy, naive, inflexibly upright, intelligent little woman of the mouse-like governessy type. It opens vistas-- how you or I look to Maureen's friend "Fuller" or how we may all have looked to "Smudge"....Particularly delicious is her idea of conjugal bliss when she says almost on the last page, "We talk, I believe, all day."
--C.S. Lewis, in a letter to his brother, 19 November 1939, as quoted in C.S. Lewis Collected Letters. Lewis married in 1956.
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