11 Lessons That 'Jane Eyre' Can Teach Every 21st Century Woman About How To Live Well

October 17, 2013 Subscribe · Forward 11 Lessons That 'Jane Eyre' Can Teach Every 21st Century Woman About How To Live Well Charlotte Brontë's "Jane Eyre" was published on this day in 1847. While I'm a very big fan of most Victorian literature, "Jane Eyre" made an impression on me that other novels formerly hadn't. "Jane Eyre" is not just a gothic romance novel. It's a bildungsroman, a coming-of-age story. It is the first of its kind in some ways, as it's written by a woman about the interior life of a woman. Female thoughts and feelings were exposed.  Continue reading... 13 Children's Book Passages That Are Actually Really Disturbing Is 'The Great American Novel' A Useless Concept? Morrissey's Big Gay 'Autobiography' Confession? 11 Lessons That 'Jane Eyre' Can Teach Every 21st Century Woman About How To Live Well Here Is The One Perfect Book For Every Single Myers-Briggs Type National Book Award Shortlists Announced 11 Lessons That 'Jane Eyre' Can Teach Every 21st Century Woman About How To Live Well 11 Lessons That 'Jane Eyre' Can Teach Every 21st Century Woman About How To Live Well 21 Reasons To Quit Your Job And Become A Teacher Here Is The One Perfect Book For Every Single Myers-Briggs Type CLAIRE FALLON Is 'The Great American Novel' a Useless Concept? Our national preoccupation with the concept is somewhat odd -- no other country seems to share this need to score ambitious new novels by whether it's a "Great _____ Novel contender." Continue reading... DEBORA SPAR Fear of Failing This is the generation, after all, that grew up with attachment parenting and Baby Einstein videos. They grew up playing soccer on teams where everyone was captain and watching music videos in which every girl with a gorgeous voice looked like a model as well. Continue reading... CORY SILVERBERG We Need a New Orientation to Sex In practice, sexual orientation poses only one question, and it is both dull and blunt: What is the gender of the people whom you are sexually attracted to and with whom you want to have intimate relationships? This is my problem. Continue reading... SETH BAUM Our Final Invention: Is AI the Defining Issue for Humanity? Humanity today faces incredible threats and opportunities: climate change, nuclear weapons, biotechnology, nanotechnology, and much, much more. But some people argue that these things are all trumped by one: artificial intelligence. Continue reading... BABETTE HUGHES Still Writing at 90: So Many Questions The creative richness and energy of the unconscious mind doesn't care how old we are. We are as young and as old as the characters we make up. Continue reading... Received this from a friend? Sign up for alerts from The Huffington Post here. Unsubscribe here. Huffington Post, 770 Broadway, New York, NY 10003