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‘Jane Eyre’ Goes to the Theatre

When it arrived on the Victorian stage, Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre had a cast of new characters and a new social order.

Stephen Ridgwell | Published in History Today Volume 73 Issue 9 September 2023

Interior view of the Victoria theatre, then known as the Coburg. 1819. Smithsonian Design Museum.</body></html>

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